Tag: Storytelling
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#238 Feel Ordinary? Try “The J.D. Vance” Positioning Strategy
Do you feel like your profile is ordinary for business school? Why not try the “J.D. Vance?” Instead of sharing positions and achievements, why not talk about the significant obstacles you overcame to get where you are? Why not offer admissions readers more context in which to evaluate your performance?
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#237 3 Storytelling Strategies to Power Up your MBA Application (from Storytelling Champion & Author Matthew Dicks)
Darren shares 3 storytelling lessons from ten-time Moth GrandSLAM winner Matthew Dicks that will help you capture your MBA admissions readers’ and interviewers’ attention.
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#200 The 3S’s of Scintillating Storytelling
Inspired by The Moth, Darren highlights three tools you can use immediately to improve your stories, so you can show adcoms who you really are and draw them closer to you. Darren also shares over a dozen questions that will help you identify your most compelling stories.
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#152 Kishōtenketsu
Do you feel like your MBA story is a bit bland? Or uninspiring compared to the applicant profiles you see online? What if you haven’t overcome insurmountable odds or accomplished something amazing? Darren explores the possibilities of kishōtenketsu – a four act story structure used by Japanese and Chinese writers for centuries. What makes this story structure…
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#51 Stalking the Story for Your MBA Essays
Who better to learn storytelling from than a two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for dramatic nonfiction? This week Darren uses Jon Franklin’s Writing for Story as guidance for “stalking the story” and writing MBA essays that grip and reveal. Franklin pioneered the narrative nonfiction genre, and his book is full of gems for applicants struggling with…