Summary of Kindra Hall's Choose Your Story, Change Your Life

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The gap is the space between where you are and where you want to be. Companies that close the gaps in business best, win.
#2 We all have gaps in life, between where we are and where we want to be. These gaps are human nature. Without them, we would have no hopes, dreams, or aspirations. But while there’s nothing more human than dreaming of leaping a gap, there are few things more disheartening than staring at a gap and never doing anything about it.
#3 To change your life, you must first understand why you tell the stories you do. To do that, you must go back much further than Mike did, to where the trouble really began.
#4 The campfire legacy lives on today. Even if you’ve never taken a single step past the city limits, you’ve experienced what lighting a few candles can do for the mood. Good storytellers are more attractive to potential mates and even have healthier offspring.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781669363859
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Kindra Hall's Choose Your Story, Change Your Life
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The gap is the space between where you are and where you want to be. Companies that close the gaps in business best, win.

#2

We all have gaps in life, between where we are and where we want to be. These gaps are human nature. Without them, we would have no hopes, dreams, or aspirations. But while there’s nothing more human than dreaming of leaping a gap, there are few things more disheartening than staring at a gap and never doing anything about it.

#3

To change your life, you must first understand why you tell the stories you do. To do that, you must go back much further than Mike did, to where the trouble really began.

#4

The campfire legacy lives on today. Even if you’ve never taken a single step past the city limits, you’ve experienced what lighting a few candles can do for the mood. Good storytellers are more attractive to potential mates and even have healthier offspring.

#5

The storytellers, it seems, have inherited the earth. The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. Steve Jobs, for example, was able to reinvent multiple industries with his storytelling ability.

#6

The ability to tell stories was like jet fuel for our species, and it still is. The future belongs to the storytellers. We have developed the ability to tell stories to ourselves, and we call this voice our inner storyteller.

#7

We use self-stories to solve problems, motivate ourselves, make plans, exercise self-control, and reflect on ourselves. We evolved to use self-stories for the same reasons we evolved to tell stories out loud: they made us better humans.

#8

Your stories have a job to do, and it’s a job that’s been carefully honed by evolution. They are to protect you and keep you alive long enough to continue the species. But you’re not living in a cave, sitting around an open fire trying to explain why that one particular mushroom is a bad idea.

#9

The stories we tell ourselves can either keep us from harm or keep us from possibility. Those that are meant to keep us from leaving our jobs often keep us from leaving our safe spaces.

#10

The problem is that your inner storyteller isn’t in sync with the outer world. The outer world has changed, and it’s not as dangerous as you think it is. But your stories are still holding you back.

#11

The power of a story starts with your self-story, but it can also explain why you’re not making progress in your life. It can explain why you’re not getting that promotion, finding a romantic partner, or paying your bills.

#12

When you hear a great story, your brain and body are affected in the same way that it is when you are spellbound by a film or book. A great story grabs your nervous system and doesn’t let go.

#13

The reality-imagination connection is why stories are so powerful in sales. They can tap into the imagination-reality connection, which is an advantage in business. However, this connection can also be harmful if it relives your embarrassing story every time you go to the gym or start a new relationship.

#14

Our brains cannot tell truth from reality, and we can’t always tell our truths from someone else’s. We can’t always tell if a story is ours or someone else’s.

#15

The brain and story connection is real. storytelling not only lights up your brain but can also change it. visualization can change the brains of athletes and musicians, demonstrating that the mental practice of a skill can make changes in the same area of your brain that would develop if you did the skill in real life.

#16

Our brains are enthralled by stories, and we can’t distinguish between fiction and reality. We also become our stories, as we rise to our expectations.

#17

We have a negativity bias, which means we tend to remember traumatic incidents better and think more frequently about negative things. We also learn more from negative experiences and make decisions based on negative information than positive.

#18

Your negativity bias is what helps you survive, and it’s what keeps you from the Emerald City. It’s normal to feel bad about your collection of negative stories and your tendency to beat yourself up or fear the worst. But remember that your stories are just leading you in circles, keeping you safe but stuck in places that aren’t excellent but at least are familiar.

#19

Roberta, our landscape architect turned health coach, was not doing the things she needed to do to grow her business. She had taken the training, but she wasn’t doing the work to get clients.

#20

The gap between where you are and where you want to be is called the A to B gap. It’s difficult to bridge, but we can see that our lives aren’t a story about the things that have happened to us; those things become a story that we tell ourselves, which determines how we feel and act.

#21

I was invited to speak at the biggest client of my career thus far. The obvious answer was to accept immediately, but I asked for time to think about it. The self-stories that were holding me back were even worse than the ones that were holding me back from accepting the invitation.

#22

I was a horrible mother, and I knew it. I was already supposed to leave on Sunday for an event on Monday, another on Tuesday, and yet another on Wednesday.