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Stakes tools (elephant, backpack, breadcrumbs, hourglass, crystal ball)

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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…