Matthew Dicks, a storyteller and communications consultant, shares his insights on creativity and productivity. He discusses practical strategies from his book, focusing on thinking in minutes and mastering time management through the eagle-and-mouse metaphor. Dicks emphasizes the importance of questioning societal norms and embracing imperfection to foster resilience. He champions prioritizing meaningful experiences over trivial concerns and highlights actionable tactics for personal growth while advocating for kindness and self-reflection in everyday life.
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100-Year Plan
Develop a 100-year plan by envisioning your ideal future self.
Make decisions today that align with your 100-year-old self's wisdom.
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Think in Minutes
Think about your life in minutes, recognizing the value of small time increments.
Make lists of tasks you can accomplish in 10 minutes to avoid wasting time.
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Use Spare Minutes Wisely
Use spare minutes for productive tasks or enjoyable activities like reading.
Avoid defaulting to mindless phone use during short breaks.
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22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life
Matthew Dicks
This book provides 22 simple and actionable ways to enhance productivity and turn dreams into accomplishments. Matthew Dicks shares his own strategies and insights from various creative people, including writers, editors, performers, artists, and magicians. The book helps readers silence negative messages, eliminate time-wasting activities, find supporters, and cultivate optimism. It emphasizes the importance of managing time effectively and living a more meaningful life by aligning daily actions with long-term goals and values.
Storyworthy
Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Matthew Dicks
In 'Storyworthy,' Matthew Dicks provides a comprehensive guide on the art of storytelling. The book is divided into three parts: Finding your story, Crafting your story, and Telling your story. Dicks shares his own stories to illustrate key points and offers tips and exercises to help readers improve their storytelling skills. He emphasizes the importance of identifying a 'five-second moment' of transformation or realization in every story and provides techniques for making stories engaging and memorable. The book is designed to help anyone become a better storyteller, whether for personal or professional purposes, and highlights how storytelling can deepen connections with others and enhance one's own life[1][3][5].
Note: This is a rebroadcast.
Matthew Dicks wears a lot of hats. Among other things, he’s a storyteller, communications consultant, writer, and schoolteacher. In order to excel in his professional life, as well as do what he loves in his personal life, he’s developed a set of strategies that help him be more creative and productive, and can be used by anyone who wants to start making the most of life.
Matt writes about these tactics and mindset shifts in his latest book Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life, and he shares some of them with us today on the show, including why you need to think in minutes, be an eagle rather than a mouse, practice deliberate incuriosity, and always do your best to act like a decent human being. Along the way, Matt and I talk about why you should floss in the shower and how restaurants that make guacamole at your table are a great example of the folly of making a thing, a thing.
The Art of Manliness 
