Storytelling Mastery: Use The 3 R's To Master Your Storytelling Abilities #storytelling #leadership

The next principle is perfect the story. Okay, it's like, okay, I may not be given 45 minutes every time I want to pitch this. Can I do it in 20? And there's this continuous improvement. Revise, review, revise, retell. And Paul, you've talked about this up front. You stole all my thunder right up front on this. King, same, same kind of story. Stephen King writes his books, and then he edits it down. He eliminates characters, he eliminates context, eliminates stuff. So the first pass is the big thing. And then the next one is just limiting it down. You know, you hear about all the deleted scenes from Star Wars, it's because they build it up, and then they cut stuff out. And they're, they're perfecting the story. And you've heard me say before, Perfection isn't a state. Perfect is a verb, and you have to release something to perfect it. So, uh, so half the time. So think about your story, and, uh, you know, can you half it, the time it takes? Can you half it again? Can you half it again? Can you half it again and get it down to like elevator speech? So perfect the story.