Mindful Storytelling Quotes

“People often think of storytelling as a performative act of persuading others, conveying messages, and selling ideas. But we must recognize that storytelling also extends inward, shaping your inner narration.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Your key message is the one thing you want your audience to take away. It is what you want to convey and how it is understood by your audience.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“It is not about being the loudest voice in the room; it’s about being the most genuine one.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“We may be in the modern digital age, but when it comes to stories, we are still antediluvian.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“People often laugh when I say I am the luckiest person alive. They laugh because I say it with a straight face.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“The life cycle of the butterfly is a good example of an analogy for workplace transformation. Its stages of development, the struggle, the growth, and the birth of something completely new!”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Conflict drives the narrative and creates opportunities for personal growth, change, and transformation.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Speak your truth and share your story, for you never know the magic that awaits on the other side of authenticity and vulnerability.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“What will other people think? It reflects the human yearning for belonging versus the imagined harsh reactions of the world. But in reality, people care much less than you think, and that’s the naked truth.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Hope is like a beacon in the darkness. It stands like a lighthouse, guiding lost ships toward safe shores.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Imagine a room of a hundred people huddled around a control panel, doing everything in their power to capture the attention of billions of people at a time. The audience thought it was fiction. But no, it is reality.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“A story unfolds over time and often involves characters and events. In the corporate context, they often serve the aim to 'inCITE': connect, inspire, teach, or express.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Not everyone needs to have the rhetorical wizardry of Barack Obama or the wordsmithery of Ernest Hemingway! You just need to be authentic.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with every phrase.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Without the hook, which captures and holds the interest of the audience, your story is irrelevant.​”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Your message might reach the ears of the audience, barely scratch the surface of their minds, and never get close to their hearts—to what they care about.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot