Rob Tourtelot
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Rob Tourtelot
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
Every great story ever told is essentially about a five-second moment in the life of a human being, and the purpose of the story is to bring that moment to the greatest clarity possible.
Matthew Dicks • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
I want to invent new paths forward every day. And I want to make people feel their way to the truth. I want to rearrange their hearts using my words. I want to redesign their minds -- artfully and thoughtfully and inventively. When I give that gift to someone else, I receive it, too. It’s the absolute best. It’s not easy but it never gets old.
Talking about friendship with Heather Havrilesky
The audience wants characters (or storytellers) to succeed, but they don’t really want characters to succeed. It’s struggle and strife that make stories great. They want to see their characters ultimately triumph, but they want suffering first. They don’t want anything to be easy.
Matthew Dicks • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
So we stumbled through our loving, difficult readings and tiny speeches; then the button was pushed, and as the coffin advanced solemnly into the furnace, dysfunctional squawks came like a shower of arrows out of the sound system. The tape kept trying to play and its clicks and grindings were amplified very efficiently into the overhead speakers. T
... See moreJohn Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Find the moment in your story that everyone has been waiting for, then flip that Hourglass and let the sand run.
Matthew Dicks • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Someday not so far away, everyone alive right now will graduate from the world, many of us having lived believing we were strangers, oblivious to the fact that we had all along been in the same class. Had the same century as a teacher. Just different beliefs about who was or wasn’t a bully. I adore this brief and clumsy life. And because of that, I... See more
Andrea Gibson • The Tears That Got Me Here
From there, I have a few go-to questions that I have found create reliably engaging discourse:
• What's your connection to [insert current place or event]?
• What are you most excited about currently?
• What's lighting you up outside of work?
• What’s your favorite book you’ve read recently?
Note: Always avoid "What do you do?" as a question. It's
... See moreThe artist and the professional, on the other hand, have turned a corner in their minds. They have succeeded in stepping back from themselves. They have grown so bored with themselves and so sick of their petty bullshit