The New Corner Office: Spin a good story

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Learn how to describe your career journey

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0:00.0	I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record
0:07.9	hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.
0:14.0	The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.
0:20.6	Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever
0:28.5	you get your podcasts.
0:35.5	Good morning, this is Laura.
0:38.1	Welcome to the new corner office, the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the
0:43.1	new world of work, where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.
0:49.8	Today's tip is to spend a good story.
0:53.6	People inevitably want to know why you chose your life's work or why you enjoy the things
0:57.9	you do.
0:59.3	If you can come up with stories from your past that illustrate a long-term passion, you'll
1:04.4	increase the chances that people remember you and want to help you take your story to
1:09.1	the next level.
1:11.4	Now I should start this episode by saying that I am not actually a big fan of explanatory
1:16.4	stories.
1:17.7	Life is not lived in epiphanies.
1:20.8	Almost no one has one moment that changes everything.
1:24.6	I always struggle with the question of how did you become interested in time management.
1:29.6	People want me to tell some story of how my life was out of control when I hit rock bottom
1:33.8	and discovered scheduling, but my life is just not that interesting.
1:38.7	I just keep trying to do things a little better than before.
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