5 Skills to Purpose-Driven Storytelling

Let’s say you want to get better at basketball. What skills do you build?

• Passing

• Dribbling

• Shooting

• Defense

Then you can break down each of those even further. Shooting becomes layups, jump shots, free-throws, and threes. You get the idea. Specific skills that, if you improve, you get better at basketball.

But there’s nothing like this for practical, purpose-driven Storytelling.

And that makes storytelling a brutally tough skill to improve. To get better, you have to sit in a cabin in the woods writing and thinking and smoking a pipe all day or jump on a stage and give a speech to 100s of people every other weekend.

This couldn’t be further from the truth.

In fact, like basketball, there are 5 Micro Skills to level up your Storytelling:

• Skill 1: Filtering ideas

• Skill 2: Structuring stories

• Skill 3: Drafting fast

• Skill 4: Editing slow

• Skill 5: Building narratives

When I realized this, I completely changed how I approach the craft. It went from this vague thing I just did but couldn’t explain to a repeatable, proven, 5-step process I return to again and again.

And, if you want access to that system, check out why 220+ storytellers have joined Storytelling: Zero to One. Each of the 5 Acts focuses on one of these 5 skills. All tactics, no fluff.

Many folks are diving in this weekend, but here’s what John and Andrew have already said:

My goal with this material is to help you master the 5 micro-skills of purpose-driven storytelling to multiply your ideas and influence while giving you a repeatable process you’ll use again and again.

Remember, I’m removing access to Storytelling: Zero to One tonight at Midnight Pacific time. There will be no exceptions and it won’t be available for another few months, at least.

Stay creative,

Nathan

PS. I can’t believe I scheduled this launch to end on Super Bowl Sunday. What a dummy. My brother’s in the Bay Area, so I’m a 49ers fan this evening. You?

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