Kirsty Bennet is telling me a story. A Brit with an accent like chipped glass, she must captivate every haplessly nasal American. Still, story telling is her domain and she understands delivery.
We are zooming – along with the rest of the world – on a weekday afternoon while Kirsty’s infant naps. As a former Moth producer, and the founder of MITell, an initiative offering a storytelling group and customized workshops for members across the MIT campus, Kirsty has distilled expertise. She shares three guiding principles for writing personal statements and sharing your story:
- Be an honest version of yourself. People can tell if you are lying on stage or in the personal statement.
- Who am I, at the start of the story and who am I, at the end of the story? If those two are like largely unchanged…then it’s not really a story.
- Don’t look for the big stuff. Look for the little stuff.
Listen:
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