What it takes to be a great Story Teller.

Story Tellers:

There is this urge to create a list of great story tellers, which leads me to the question or questions, what is a great Story teller and how do I go about creating the list and justifying it, so folks dont think it is just one of my realities?.

I am going to let this simmer a bit, but here it is, in a nutshell.
I find a Story Teller, who catches my attention, In 140 words I describe or capture his essence.

Sir Ken Robinson:
Educationist, How fear of failure stifles creativity. Insence, Myrh and Frank sent this.

Gary Vee:
Takes the fear out of inexpensive wine.

Jon Stewart:
Time lapses political stances. Time lapses Journalist stances.

Clarence from Clarence.com just plain brilliant
http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/07/dykc23/

I really need to get this on pbwiki and have folks contrbute. Jimmy wales where are you?.

Great Story Tellers

Lately I have been on this kick, wanting to create a list of good story tellers of our time. Not sure how I would go about it other than brute force and ETL the web for content, may be use a semantic search browser such as ligit, not sure at this time, but what keeps coming back is the desire to document good story tellers. I plan on building this list out over a period of time, hopefully will get folks to contribute to it as well. We shall see.

Examples of good story tellers out there today:

1) Sir Ken Robinson on “Do Schools kill creativity”. (my all time favorite ted’s talk, if you can spare 18 min this is a must see: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66 )

2) Larry Lessig and his 3 stories on IP, and how creativity is being strangled by the law (again at Teds: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187 )

3) Gary Ve (This guy is quite a story teller, I am not a wine drinker myself, but his style is pretty terrific: http://tv.winelibrary.com/)

4) Stephan Colbert – Quite a story teller, pretends to be a conservative while giving you the impression that he is a liberal

5) John Stewart – finds contradictions in story’s told by the same person (normally politicians) and elaborates on them.

6) Clarence. Please listen to this guy, he might be a the best one yet.

http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/07/dykc23/