The best way to make the eyes and the ears of your students glued to you is to confidently tell the best story you could ever make.
In this episode of The Tutor Podcast, Neil talks about the importance of storytelling in teaching. As educators, teachers, and coaches, we want that, as much as possible, we provide the most fun and productive learning experience for our students. Discover why creating stories produces the instant magic of attracting and engaging your target audience. Neil also talks about the generic structure of the world’s greatest novels, his own teaching experience, why Star Wars is a big hit and many more.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Stories help us to make sense of the world. There are written and spoken histories, myths, and folklore that have been passed on for hundreds of years. They haven’t died and have continued to be retold because they are story-based.
Stories are a storehouse of information and wisdom. We listen to told stories, learn the lesson from them, and contemplate about how related our experiences.
Stories help your ideas be interesting and sound familiar to your audience. The easiest and most effective way to sell your idea is to slip it in a story. Stories got the flow and easily links your ideas together. When we start telling the story, the listener anticipates for what’s next.
There’s a generic story structure which powers the majority of the world’s greatest stories, according to Joseph Campbell’s work in “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”. Across cultures, the story is the same: The departure – the future hero is compelled to, or chooses to, leave their normal world
The initiation – the future hero is tested and changed in some way; often discovering who they really are and what is most important to them.
The return – once changed, the Hero returns to their Normal world, bringing back to it their discoveries.

BEST MOMENTS

“Sneaking your message or content in a story package is a great way of putting it under the radar of students and friends. I think it’s very important that we are creating, finding, borrowing, and using stories because they’re great resources for our business.”


“I love to use stories to encapsulate the big ideas of my guitar teaching system and the way I develop it. It’s a sticky way to bring a lot of ideas to life, to make the small, technical details more memorable and fun for my students.”

“There are stories everywhere. In life, every message or idea can be made more memorable when it’s wrapped in the right story.”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Star Wars
ABOUT THE HOST
Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years of experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!
CONTACT METHOD
Neil Cowmeadow
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