Storytelling: The Human Edge In An Age of Robots

Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In the information age you are only as valuable as your ideas. Your ability to package your ideas with emotion, context, and relevancy is the one skill that will make you more valuable in the next decade. During a...

Valuable Toolkit For Speakers And All Leaders

I had previously listened to the Audible version of one of Carmine’s previous books, Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds. That book was super helpful, and it provided a great framework for developing an engaging presentation....

How Storytelling Hooks Your Audience

If you want people to pay attention to you, wrap your idea in a story. The story provides the bliss point; the moment your audience falls in love. In music the bliss point is ‘the hook,’ the lines and beats that turn a song into a hit. In pop music a handful of...