(listened as audiobook)

Storyworthy teaches readers how to tell engaging and meaningful stories from their own lives. The author, Matthew Dicks, was already a teacher and novelist before he embarked on his storytelling career by attending a Moth event. I hadn’t heard about the Moth and the type of storytelling that it promotes before reading this book.

Dicks distinguishes between personal, true, stories (which the book is about) and what he calls “folktales”. The book is a “how to” on developing and presenting stories. It’s an entertaining read given that Dicks intersperses stories and anecdotes throughout .

Some of main main takeaways:

- homework for life to cultivate ideas for stories
- Stories let you connect with people and entertain them. Also allow you to develop more meaning in your life.
- Point of story is a 5 second moment of transformation. Everything should be based on that
- Once have end of story, then decide on beginning, which should be opposite of end.
- Techniques for keeping story vivid such as always having location, compressing time and using present tense

Overall, a very good book. Better than some of these business books on stories that I have attempted to read