The One Social Skill That Beats All The Others

If I had to pick just one social skill to have it a 10 out of 10, it'd be the one in this video.

It can make you rich and famous all on its own.

And it's also the one that lets you connect on a date or stand out in an interview or hold the attention of an entire room.

And it's actually something that I did for 24% of my speaking time in my diary of a CEO interview, which sounds great until you realize that the highly charismatic Matthew McConaughey did it for 47% of the time in his interview.

which is twice as much as me.

So what is this skill? Well, it's storytelling.

My dad's at a ranch one time with his friends.

It's late at night.

They're sitting out at the bar and drinking and stuff, and all of a sudden the subject comes up of how high everybody can pee.

Little Mr. Texas.

Six years ago, I said, well, let me just zoom in on this picture.

I look at the trophy, and it says runner-up.

Little Mr. Texas.

I have three things to my account that I need each day.

You considered becoming a monk.

I talked to a good friend of mine, a brother Christian at Monastery of Christ in the Desert.

His opinion was, no, no, no, that is not what you're here to do.

You're a communicator.

You're a storyteller.