The power of story

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The power of story

By Jim Loehr (2007)


This book is about how you by writing a painfully honest story about your current self and the one about your preferred future, can change your life.

Reflections 

"The power of story" is basically a self-help book based on the methods Jim Loehr have developed over a long and successful career helping top athletes and business people to perform better. And the method basically boils down to one thing; storytelling. 
Or more exact, the stories you tell your self about your self and your life.

The stories 
  • about your work
  • about your family 
  • about your family 
  • about your happiness 
  • about friendships 
  • about your dreams
  • and so on...

The method is roughly as follows
1. Write down your current story. Just a draft, don't show it to any on.
2. Rewrite until you reach a point of honesty and clarity around your stories.
3. Think hard about how you would like your story to be like and write that story

Without purpose no story. You need structure in your life, and the story you tell your self is that structure. But don't take your self too seriously. As the Canadian philosopher, Marshall Maclean said “I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say”

It sounds a lot like the Future Authoring program that was developed by Jordan b Petersen and other self-authorships programs.

Takeaways 

My biggest takeaway from "The power of story" is how central, important and powerful stories actually for us humans. Jim L says that stories are structure. Storys give us structure. That was very useful for me. As a UX designer, you know that structure is the most important component. We crave control and hate chaos. Patterns


Cost-book-benefit analysis

Like most hands-on self-help book there are exercises in this book, which if you want to play along with them, definitely works better if you have an actual copy of the book in which you can stop, go back, read again and write in the margin.

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