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26th Dec 2018

159: Conflict in Storytelling

CONFLICT IN STORYTELLING

Conflict in storytelling is a vital element to all great stories. In fact, you won’t a story if you do not introduce and develop conflict from beginning to end.

Why? Because people get involved and remain engaged in your story when it takes them on a journey toward the resolution of conflict.

Think of conflict in storytelling as a powerful tool to create and sustain tension. Tension hooks and holds attention.

LEARN FROM MOVIES

Two movies that demonstrate intense conflict in storytelling are:

  • E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial – directed by Steven Spielberg
  • Rocky  – starring Sylvester Stallone

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Why do people see plays and movies more than once? They want to experience the resolution of conflict in storytelling. The journey, the struggle against obstacles, toward the resolution of conflict arouse strong emotions and makes people more alive.

Remember this rule of storytelling. People are held and remain engaged by the process of resolution, not the outcome.

In this episode, you will gain insight to three great stories that people return to again and again even though they know how those stories end. They are:

  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • It’s A Wonderful Life – starring James Stewart and directed by Frank Capra

CONFLICT IN STORYTELLING FOR BUSINESS

You will learn why you always want to use conflict in storytelling for your presentations, sales and marketing messages, and pitches to enrol people in your ideas or cause.

This is why storytelling works so well to earn your money and create success in your business:

  • Character – You create a central character that represents your audience’s avatar; your audience is your specific target market.
  • Pain Point – You identify your audience’s biggest pain point.
  • Resolution – You promise to eliminate pain and resolve your audience’s problem.
  • Conflict – You introduce conflict to take your audience on a satisfying resolution journey.
  • Empathy & Rapport – You identify your audience’s conflict and make them feel understood. That makes them like and trust you, and feel that they know you.

ONE PLUS ONE IS THREE

Discover why I care about your success as a masterful storyteller.

QUOTE IN THIS PODCAST

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt

GREAT STORYTELLING BOOK

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield

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Change Your Story, Change Your Life
Influences: Tony Robbins, T. Harv Eker, Wayne Dyer, Jim Rohn, Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie, Dale Carnegie, Oprah, Robert Kiyosaki, Robin Sharma, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, LinkedIn, Twitter, method acting, Marlon Brando, Marcus Aurelius
Humans are storytelling machines. You and I are constantly creating, destroying, elevating, and diminishing ourselves with our inner narratives that appear and disappear in our minds 24/7. Most people are not aware of this process. As a result, they believe that life is happening to them. This feels random, chaotic, and scary. Why do people tolerate it? Because they tell themselves, "That's the way it is. That is reality." Those seven words could not be farther from the truth.

This podcast will explore the storytelling process that is responsible for every facet of your life. It will discuss and encourage ways to take control of your personal narrative so that you can begin directing your destiny with an empowering story.

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Louis Di Bianco

Louis Di Bianco is a storyteller. He fell in love with storytelling as a child. In his teens, his ability to tell entertaining stories saved his life on the streets of the Bronx, where he grew up. He discovered quickly how to make the neighborhood tough guys like, trust, and respect him by engaging them with stories.

Louis became a professional stage and screen actor to get paid for his love of storytelling. He has appeared in numerous feature films, TV movies, and television series, as well as performing on stage internationally.

He has taught acting for both stage and camera for as long as he has been an actor. We're talking more than four decades. Eventually, he created courses in compelling communication for business people who want to present their ideas, products, and services to the world with clarity, confidence, and persuasive power.

Louis takes the words, Change Your Story, Change Your Life, very seriously. His life experience has taught him that every word we utter, every belief we embrace, is a made up story. Even your past is a made up story that seems so vivid that you swear it's real. Accept that, and you remove all the barriers between you and your dreams. You will be able to enjoy the adventure of changing your story to change your life.