The alarm rang this morning interrupting a story I was
having in my head while I slept. I swept the covers off of me, telling them a
story about an angry and restless giant who could be soothed only when covered
with a magical blanket. Then I walked the 11 feet to my bathroom, thinking
along the way of a story of the road not taken and where unexpected twists and
turns could take us. Like what if I turned left into the utility closet or
continued straight into the linens? What amazing stories could come from those
occurrences.
I ran the water in the sink and thought of the story of
where that water came from. How Irish immigrants fleeing famine and persecution
came to this country many years ago and built the reservoirs and aqueducts that
sustain New York City. I thought of the story of Megan O’Keefe who died from
the grippe while caring for nine kids and her husband who would, nonetheless,
cuff her around.
I thought of Dr. Washington Sheffield who was first to put
dentifrice in collapsible tubes. Thank you, Dr. Sheffield! I imagined a story
of Dr. Sheffield presenting his life and accomplishments to St. Peter. What a
story it would be. What life! What love! What laughter!
Here it was, I was awake for just six minutes and I had
already told four or five stories. Why?
Because, don’t you see, everything is all about
story-telling and I’m a fucking story-teller. Everything has a narrative. An
arc. A pathway. Everything.
And we are story-tellers.
Finding stories in everything from experience design to SEO.
Finding stories in everything from experience design to SEO.
We will tell these stories and thereby use our finely-tuned
story-telling skills to tell the story of our clients’ brands.
Because we are story-tellers.
Laugh out loud funny. Well, the good news is, if you tell most agency and client folk that a certain concept is a great example of story telling, they'll believe it. It's actually a pretty good selling tool. A lie, perhaps, but a good selling tool.
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