Eric EdmeadesVisionary Thinker. Evolutionary Strategist. Transformation Architect.

How to Make More Money with Your Story

Name: How to Make More Money with Your Story
Uploaded: 2023-08-29T19:31:34+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Eric Edmeades
Description: Eric Edmeades argues that ordinary personal experiences and stories have value to other people and can be monetized or used to teach. He tells an…

29 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Eric Edmeades argues that ordinary personal experiences and stories have value to other people and can be monetized or used to teach. He tells an anecdote about a woman from India who practices "elimination training" for babies (timing when infants need to urinate/defecate so diapers are unnecessary) to illustrate that what seems mundane to the storyteller can be highly valuable to an audience. He generalizes that many kinds of successes, failures, experiments, and heartbreaks from anyone's life can be valuable material for others.

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I had this woman come to one of my speaking courses. She wanted to speak about something she called elimination training. She came from India, and they had a custom in her tribe where they figured out that babies communicate when they need to, you know, pee and poop and stuff early, which means that you can never have diapers. You can actually time it and never have them. For those of you who had children, how much is that story worth to you? Thousands and thousands and thousands that story is worth. For her, it's just a story. It's just a thing. It's just a story. But I'm telling you that one day somebody broke your heart. One day somebody ripped you off in business. One day you experimented with something and you got a huge rise. One day you did an investment and it worked. One day you had some success in some area. One day you had some failure in another area. And every one of those experiences have a value to somebody in the audience somewhere out there. Does this make sense? Any one of you could be up here on the stage. I could be in the audience, and your talk might have tremendous value for me. The only reason that I'm the one up here is because it happens to be my day. But every one of you has that value.