Passion

Why Record a Life Story?

27 July 2010

Most of us don’t have interesting lives. Actually when it comes down to it, even people who have interesting lives have a gazillion tedious little events that when combined may eventually develop into something interesting. If we were to listen to everything we would realise that the vast majority of their life is much like [...]

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Episode 9 : Storytelling Skills and Technique

13 July 2010

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Telling Your Story – Authentic, Laconic and Captivating Click to share on Twitter You’re Telling Your Story Storytelling is the art of taking a story, your story or another’s and retelling that story. Creating entertainment utilising all the skills of theatre to modifying your style to suit and engage with the audience, drawing them into [...]

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A Trillion Hours, What Are We Doing with Them?

8 July 2010

Today while listening to the BBC Digital Planet interview with Clay Shirky I realised something that is about what we are doing here. Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age states that there is globally one trillion hours of spare time per year that in the past was [...]

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Episode 8 : Talking of Passion

6 July 2010

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Passion – The compelling force of any kind of feeling or emotion. Click to share on Twitter Episode Eight of Create Your Life Story is about the Passion that is the energy behind all great stories. It is a term used in various different ways but for the sake of our discussion I like this [...]

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A Passionate Conversation is Easy

31 May 2010

At the start of a Life Story project it’s easy to think “What will I talk about?” Now we all know that all lives are filled with the big and the small things but the events that matter the most are the ones that we are passionate about. These are also the events that that [...]