Dicks: Stories Must Be About the Speaker to Convey True Vulnerability
Matthew Dicks · How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy) · Dec 15, 2023 · at 18:26
Storytelling teacher and author Matthew Dicks explains why impactful stories must center on the storyteller rather than third parties.
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“If you're telling a story about someone else, essentially you might as well be telling fiction because that person's not in the room and to the audience, they don't really exist unless they're, you know, if they can't see them, that person is just another human being who supposedly lives somewhere in the world or once lived in the world. And because of that, you are almost unable to express any vulnerability in your story.”
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