skills you can learn the people who have

the most influence on this planet are

good storytellers teachers use them to

convey important concept comedians use

them to make us laugh companies use them

to sell their products and politicians

use them to campaign and take power a

recent study even found that good

storytellers are seen as significantly

more attractive and are even considered

more important so how exactly do you

become a good storyteller

well every good story is told in the

same exact format that is comprised of

three parts if you can learn and master

these three parts you can become a

significantly better storyteller the

first part is to set up this is where

you set the scene for your story you

give the listener enough detail for them

to know what you're going to talk about

think of it as the cover of a book if

you don't have a proper set up a proper

cover people will not listen to your

story they're not going to pick up that

book you'll hear comments like oh you're

so random or haha you're so weird

if you do not have a proper setup what

you want to make sure to is that your

story is relatable to the subject at

hand for example if my friends were

talking about their crazy college

roommates I could bring up a story about

my old roommate if my friends are

talking about people they looked up to

in the past I could bring in a story

about my boss who I used to look up to

the second part is the content it's here

where you get to the meat of the story

describes events that occur but if you

spend too much time covering unnecessary

details people will quickly lose

interest

I'm sure we've all met those people who

just talk and talk and talk and never

get to the point it's safe to say people

don't really listen to their stories a

good principle to remember here is kiss

vs kill keep it short and simple versus

keeping it long and lengthy if a piece

of information is not crucial for the

story to make sense

do not included think back to the last

time you watched a good movie what was

going on in your head while you're

watching this movie that made it so

great it might have been funny or

beautiful but the most important factor

it had was tension by building more and

more tension the listener gets more and

more invested they wonder

oh my god what's going to happen how

will this story and now in order to

build tension the meat of your story has

to be interesting the events that occur

has to be something that doesn't

normally happen for example you can tell

a story about you going to the

supermarket and all that happens is that

you buy groceries

there's no tension the story is boring

if people stopped paying attention

halfway to your story it's because

you're either killing it or you're not

building enough tension the third and

final part of a good story is the

resolution is here when you release all

of the tension you built up in the

previous step in comedy the resolution

is the punchline in presentations your

resolution is your conclusion if you

don't properly resolve your story people

will not realize your story is done now

I know that this is a lot to take in

so what we're going to do is we're going

to analyze a couple of stories and break

down exactly what part is what so you

can get an idea of exactly how you

should tell a story I think it's very

important to have a mentor you can look

up to the man who taught me everything I

know about hustling work at the chasing

your dreams with my old sales manager so

one day he was out trying to make

himself he knocks on the door and the

guy opens up and says what do you want

so my boss starts his pitch

hi nice to meet you my name is Jim we

did some updates in the area i'm just

here to talk to you about your internet

and the guy goes oh you're a Salesman

right we'll get the fuck off my porch

now the thing about being a good

salesman is that you have to stay

persistent you'll be surprised how many

extra sales you can make by just

standing your ground so my boss goes

look I understand you're busy but it's

only going to take 30 seconds so the guy

reaches behind his back pulls out a gun

and pistol with my boss right across the

face course and you know what my boss

said ok so now can we talk about your

internet man I couldn't have asked for a

better mentor so if we take a look at

this top part right here this is to set

up the listener knows that i'm going to

talk about a mentor of mine someone who

inspired me if we take a look at the

second part this is the context the meat

of the story

what you'll notice is that I'm only

mentioning the most crucial details i'm

not telling you about the weather that

day or what time it is because frankly

none of that stuff is important for the

story to make sense

but you'll also notice is that I throw

in sound effects this is something that

a lot of good storytellers will do it

will add sound effects facial

expressions and even change their voice

in order to make the story see more

animated the listener can see a clear

picture of exactly what is happening

this line over here

the thing about being a good salesman is

that you have to stay persistent disk

builds tension the listener now knows

that my boss is going to do something

and if we look at this line right here

and you know what my boss said this line

right here built a tremendous amount of

tension the listeners thinking to

himself oh I can feel a punchline coming

I wonder what it is and that's when you

hit them with the resolution it closes

up the whole story shows the listener

why I looked up to my boss so much and

what you'll notice that i doing a line I

couldn't have asked for a better mentor

this is what's called a closing

statement

it shows the listener that the story is

now over here is another example when I

was in college my roommate had a funny

habit of hurting himself in the weirdest

ways possible he was by far the

unluckiest person I had ever met in my

life

so one day he comes back into our room

looking really really sad so I say Adam

what happened man he looks at me and

says my girlfriend just broke up with me

will do you want to talk about it now be

fine

sounds like okay understand sometimes

guys need to get over things by yourself

I turn around and go back onto my laptop

and suddenly I hear I turn around and

Adam is clutching his arm and there's a

knife about