ITL238: This Is the Key to Getting People to Listen to You

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, I answer a listener's question on how to determine when, how, and how often to use your "best story."

We all hear, "Your worst times can become your best times."

Your worst times really can write the ticket for the rest of your life.
My worst time is something I never would have chosen in a million years, and yet it was the time that the rest of my life—and my best story—was really built upon.
Picking your best story has a lot to do with relatability, which is key for me when telling my story of living under a pier.
I'm trying to use my story to help people understand that even though it might look like the world is ending for them, it's not true.

Your best story may not come about because of anything you've ever chosen or done.

However, it may be the doorway to a mine you can dig things out of that are relatable and valuable to other people.
So many of the topics I've talked about in my books and speeches have come from a single event in my life.
Lessons of persistence, humility, seeking wisdom, how to act, how to take action, entrepreneurship, and so much more came from the mine that is my best story.

Tune in to hear how an old boss's mistake almost got me thrown in jail—and how that mistake did and did not affect both our lives for the next quarter-century.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:12.9	Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy, and I am sitting here
0:17.9	with viral sensation, Andy Andrews.
0:21.7	What?
0:22.6	I knew I'd throw you off with that.
0:24.7	Have you...
0:25.7	That sounds like, that sounds like I'm sick.
0:30.2	No, you have gone, surely you know this by now.
0:34.7	Recently, a video of yours has gone what they call viral.
0:38.3	What?
0:39.3	I know I do not have any idea about this.
0:43.3	Well, at last count, because the last time I looked at me on YouTube, I had like, you know, 300 views.
0:50.3	Okay, well, we are recording this right now in late March. I'm not sure when it'll air,
0:58.0	but probably, you know, April or May or something like that. But as of today, a video of
1:03.0	yours, just in the last few weeks, has received just over three million views. And it is your,
1:12.0	this is so funny.
1:16.1	It's your story from when you were a child of singing Amazing Grace.
1:16.8	Really? Yes.
1:17.4	And your good friends at Women of Faith had posted a video of you doing that at one of their events.
1:26.2	Remember, you did three years of women of faith. Yeah.
1:29.4	Tours the token man. Yes, you were. A man in an arena of 10,000 women. Yeah. The only man.
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