A consultant with 28 years in the field argues that the stories we tell matter more than our technical wins. He recalls performing on stage at Purdue in front of 50 people and meeting countless clients, but what stuck were the people and their stories, not the decks he built. Everyone has something worth telling.
But when you leave Purdue or any place, any major experience like that, leave with a story. What's your. What's. And I'm telling them over and over again, what's your Purdue story? And. And they're like, what? Right? Because it's. Because it's what you just said. It's like your produced story isn't like, well, when I took Physics 251 on, you know, week 10, you know, there was this great problem that I got to solve, and I feel really good because I got 100 on that quiz point. It's like, that's not your story. When you leave Purdue or any event, you know, the story is, I got up in front of 50 people and I played guitar. Your story is my story of, I actually got invited to three of the fraternities. I turned them all down. But my. That's my story. You know, that's a part of the story. That's what you leave with. And you know what? The end of life, you know, you've done your job. You know, I was in Consulting for 28 and a half years. Yep. I delivered a lot of projects, delivered a lot of PowerPoint decks, delivered a lot of solutions to clients. I had a lot of meetings. If you ask me, you know, what happened on these projects. You know what I'm remembering? I remember the people. I remember the stories. And that's what you take with you, you know, as you go through life. You string together these pearls of amazing stories. That's what you remember. That's why storytelling and story crafting is so important. You're in a story right now. How would you tell that story? Well, it's not worth telling. It's like, oh, every story is worth telling. If you're good at story crafting.
