It is the final episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Spread.

Thank you for spending 20 days learning with us.

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But with one episode left, let's get into it.

So we are ending on a high, and the high is the skill of storytelling.

And storytelling matters because stories are memorable. When we share a story, our brains light up

in a different way. We have mirror neurons in our brain and so when someone tells a story,

they kind of connect and that's where we feel

empathy. We feel connection. If Helen's telling a story about something, I start to think about

have I had a similar experience? And so we don't all want to tell stories all the time. We do

need facts and data along the way. But I think often we can feel that

stories are a bit intimidating because you feel like, oh, if it needs to be a TED Talk style

story or it needs to be a life story. But I think most of the stories that we tell at work

are really small stories. They're just kind of those moments where it shows that we care, that we're human,

and you're just bringing things to life in a different way. And so my top tip here and the thing

that I am trying to do more of, because I think it's quite, it gets you to be like curious,

it gives you a thing to focus on, is to be a story spotter. So set an intention for your week at work to spot the stories that people are saying

in the meetings that you're in, the moments that you're having chats with.

Because I think what it helps you to do is see the variety of stories or examples that

people are sharing.

Like sometimes I'm looking for the lengths.

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