Why I believe storytelling could make you?happier
Dilpreeta Vasudeva
CMO at First LivingSpaces-Ziki, Yukio, Sirrus.ai | Meta, Tata Play, Microsoft, Times Internet | ISB
That uncle and the nth repetition of his joke,
Those aunts and their banter on ol’ college furore.
We all have our favorite anecdotes,
That we have mastered over the years,
Retold and relived them without a bore.
We remember the past, we forget the recent,
Because creating memories too, needs commitment.
We add years, but the number of fun stories often don’t play catch up.
So here is why I think, your narrative to yourself, could be a deal-maker.
Our brain tricks us,
False memories are a fact.
Each time you retell a story, it is not exactly the same.
It is a little more drama and a little more detail.
Each time it becomes more real.
What more,
we have free choice, in choosing our version
will it be amusing or dull and dry?
1st Jan 2017, I did this little exercise,
I recounted moments in the year gone by.
Moments that made me smile.
Revelation it was!
Centered around people, experiences and even random conversations.
None of my achievements got featured.
It wasn’t what I did, but how I felt that lived-on.
So I do a little more of what makes me happy from then-on.
Telling ourselves, our daily story is like setting anchors.
It is much like organizing ,
Putting up signboards and sticky notes.
It is correlating happenings with emotions,
Making it easy to find one another.
It is empowering, because these stories are ours to own.
Bookmarking them though, requires conscious effort,
Daily, weekly, monthly or annual recapitulation.
You may use a map on often traveled routes,
but do you need navigation to walk through the gate of your school?
Rethink how you respond to a mundane question like How your day was?
Rethink if it’s a mundane question, at all.
PS: Stories are forever!
Director, CBO | Driving Digital Transformation for Manufacturing| IIoT | DuPont, National Instruments, Cypress Semiconductor | ISB
4 年Totally agree! It's about your story, who listens to it, how much of it is believed, and how many enrol to retell it like their own.
Entrepreneur - from bootstrapped to successful exits | Marketer loved deeply madly by Sales | Publisher (???????) of Books in Indian Languages | Career multiplier guide One Life Do More. This is where I come in.
4 年Totally agree. In this mad race of KPIs, scorecards and numbers, we have forgotten the simpler pleasures. Even as marketers.