Lenny’s Podcast142 min
How to tell better stories
Matthew Dicks · Dec 15, 2023
Key learnings
- Build every story around one five-second moment of transformation or realization, and make the rest of the story context that…
- Start stories as close to the end as possible, because the ending moment determines what you need to say and where to begin.
- Apply the dinner test: tell stories the way you would at a dinner table, only slightly elevated, without performance tricks like…