Fellow speaker,
Stories come in three kinds:
- Happened to someone else
- Personal
- In between happened to someone else and personal
The stories that happened to someone else are the most distant kind of stories and most useful for quick examples. Personal stories that happened to you get the audience's attention and interest. If you don't have any personal stories, tell stories about what you felt or learned when you heard about another person's story. This isn't as strong a story as the personal story, but it is stronger than telling a story which happened to someone else.
Many storied,
Tim
