Monday 16 April 2012

Storytelling

Everybody has a story and almost every story has knowledge we can acquire for our own journey.  Have you ever sat down with a stranger and realized they had a similar path to yours?  Have you spoken with a family member and discovered something new about yourself?

You may not need to look to far for these stories.  A biography of someone you admire, an online video or blog post, a good talk with a co-worker are all ways we can explore the stories that surround us.

Can you recall a story that transformed the way you think of yourself, or the world?

8 comments:

  1. I read the autobiography of Roberto Clemente when I was an adolescent and it definitely made me change the way I view life

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    1. Really! Tell me more...maybe I have to read this book (when I am done school)

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  2. behind us all... each and every one of us... so many stories!

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    1. On yourjourneys to work each day, you must be surrounded by so many people, and many stories. Do you ever imagine what their stories are about? I love to imagine stories for people - fascinating.

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  3. Yes, I spoke with someone on Saturday. I resonated with much of what she shared, we discovered we had similar life experiences. She's even attending the same college I went to. Then again, I believe we have more in common with others than what is dissimilar.

    As a child I was drawn to biographies, of a certain type. Decades later, I learned through Myers Briggs that I had the same personality type as them, they were case studies of this personality! (INTJ)

    The biographies of Albert Schweitzer, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Robert E. Lee and Lincoln all shaped me.

    Thanks for prodding me to be sensitive to the stories others offer. That's an integral part of my profession: allowing others to unravel their stories in a safe place.

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    1. Oh! We are so similar. I am ENTJ. I share characteristics with Jim Carrey, Fraklin Roosevelt, Steve Jobs and Margaret Thatcher.

      Providing safe space for stories to exhale into the open is such an art. There needs to be trust, possibility (hope), an open ear, and a sense of ease...so much.

      It is great what you do Pablo!

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  4. Napoleon, Douglas MacArthur, Omar Bradley, among others, were ENTJ.

    As a youth, theirs were the biographies I read.

    I was an ENTJ. Now,I'm 57% percent INTJ, 43% ENTJ. When I have to be, for organizations, I'm an ENTJ, if someone else is having problems leading.

    The biographies I listed earlier were ones I've read later, in adulthood.

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  5. I'm finding women EVERY DAY who are in a similar boat as I, or who was already forged the path... EVERYONE HAS A STORY... and I try to learn from all of them :)

    GREAT BLOG!

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