The first rule of good storytelling is knowing what matters. Too many irrelevant details lose your audience, and if you're apologizing after you finish, you weren't focused enough. A story has to matter to both you and the people listening.
it's really knowing what is significant versus what's not. Because there's a lot of ways that you can tell a story with tons of detail, but how many times have you had someone do this? They share a story and you're just like wandering, like, what is the point of this story? So many details. You like, you have one of these things, you're like, you're good. Lost for a second. You know what I'm talking about? You've been there. I've seen that in your eyes. You're like, oh, that. That was my teacher. Yeah, he definitely did that lots of times. If you have to apologize after your story, there's a good indication that you didn't focus on what was significant. The first S in the STORY framework is significance. I'm not saying this is going to be significant for every single person, but it's significant for you and it's significant for your audience.
