117 How To Engage Someone's Story Part 1
The Place We Find Ourselves
Adam Young
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Engaging another person’s story is a skill that can be learned! Over the course of the next four episodes, I will explain how to engage another person’s story well. Today, I discuss the first two principles of effective story engagement. Principle 1: Attunement is more important than engaging the story brilliantly. Principle 2: Kindness will take you further than skill.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and for the next four episodes |
| 0:07.1 | I am going to talk about how to engage another person's story |
| 0:13.4 | But before I begin if the podcast has been helpful to you please consider |
| 0:18.7 | Supporting it financially the way you can do that is to go to my website and click on support the podcast |
| 0:25.2 | There are three different options for supporting the podcast |
| 0:28.7 | Thank you for considering it. Okay over the next four episodes |
| 0:34.0 | I am going to share what I call the basic principles of story engagement and |
| 0:40.4 | the tactics of story engagement in other words how to do it |
| 0:46.0 | both listening to someone's story and |
| 0:50.2 | Responding well to someone's story is part art and part science in other words |
| 0:56.8 | There are certain principles that apply principles that can be taught |
| 1:01.6 | That's the science part and then there is something that needs to be caught |
| 1:06.9 | By watching others do it and that's the art part |
| 1:11.1 | So point number one of today's episode is that story |
| 1:16.3 | engagement can be learned |
| 1:18.7 | It is not some mysterious ability that some people are born with and other people aren't |
| 1:24.7 | The notion that you know Adam is good at this, but I never could be is |
| 1:30.3 | Bloney I sucked at story engagement when I first began this work in 2013 |
| 1:35.9 | I had no idea where to start what to focus on what to say what not to say |
| 1:42.0 | This is something that can be learned |
| 1:45.8 | Dan Allender says that only two things are required to begin |
| 1:50.9 | Engaging someone's story humility and courage |
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