Storyworthy

Two of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of Storyworthy pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.

1. Homework for Life: every night, identify the single most story-worthy moment of your day, the one five-minute story you'd tell if you had to choose, and log that moment in a spreadsheet in one or two sentences, not a journal entry, not the whole story. The real payoff is noticing your life and slowing perceived time; a bank of material is the bonus.
2. The five-second moment is the soul of every story: one instant of INTERNAL change, a realization or shift in feeling, never the dramatic external event. Dicks proves it with 'Jurassic Park wasn't about dinosaurs': it reduces to Alan Grant shifting from disliking kids to protecting them.

The other 5 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 8 chapters

The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.

1. A Coward Tells a Story
2. What a Story Actually Is
3. Homework for Life
4. Dreaming at the End of Your Pen
5. The Five-Second Moment
6. Finding Your Beginning
7. Simple, Elegant Truths
8. Telling It, and Living It