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Robert McKee On The Art of Story & Why Stories Matter

The Rich Roll Podcast

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What's the Story That You Tell About Yourself?

We're all walking around with some version of a locked in narrative right that either liberates us or imprisons us. We tell ourselves stories out of our memories and the stories that we tell ourselves are very selective. So what's the story that you tell yourself about yourself? Some years ago I was lecturing in Spain and a journalist there asked me a question nobody had ever asked me which was because he'd been lecturing for at least you know 25 years. Why do you keep traveling the world trying to help people compose insightful honest stories first page stage and screen why? Why do you do this? And I said well very little in life very little is meaningful. It's random far

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