A short YouTube talk by Mick Hunt arguing that everyone is "selling yourself" through storytelling and personal branding. Using a personal anecdote about being placed in high-school debate, the speaker highlights that learning to formulate and defend arguments is essential across professions and that people must present and be able to defend their personal story.
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Draw inspiration from other people that are doing things that you want to do, right? Storytelling. Just to hit on that for a quick second. Man. So powerful. One of the things I say in the book is that you are selling yourself and building your brand. From the moment you are born into the time that you die to the time you live in this leave this earth and God calls you home. You. You are selling yourself. We all are. I don't care who you are. My parents, they put me in debate class when I was in high school. And Mick, I hated it because it wasn't cool. The cool kids weren't doing that. They were out. They were playing sports, right? They were. Or playing hooky, whatever they were doing. But they weren't doing debate. Right? I'm so thankful because what my parents did was put me in an environment that forced me to. To learn how to formulize an argument and defend an argument. And what you have to understand is that I don't care what your profession is. I don't care what your desired profession or ambition is. You will always need to be able to present an argument and defend that argument. And sometimes you need to be able to present yourself a certain way, tell your story, and you need to be able to defend your story.