I think everyone should write at least 1 book in their lifetime. For the last six months, I’ve really been thinking about getting my first book started.
My current focus on this has come from the slew of grad and law school essays that I’ve looked over for friends recently. I have known some of these people for 3, 4, 5 years and learned more about them from those 2-3 pgs than from any conversation that we had since we met. You could say that says something about the breadth and depth of our conversations, but I think it says something about society and how few of us really share our stories.
It may sound crazy, but I love people- meeting new people, engaging in conversation, people watching, trying to figure out what makes us do what we do, learning people’s stories and sharing my own. Being in PR in DC, I regularly go to a lot of media and tech networking events or meetups. Often when I meet people and we have not been formally introduced, I say: “What’s your story?”
Not everyone knows how to take this question. I blame my English 11 professor, who introduced me to my now favorite genre- biographies, for this gift/curse of a fascination. Aside from the typical DC “what’s your name, where do you work, what do you do,” I’m trying to learn your story, what makes you YOU?
At this point in my life, a lot of what makes me ME involves being a Gen-Yer, my transition into the real world, my thoughts about how things will work out, so I am not surprised that I came up with this video when Twenty Something Bloggers asked me this:
“Film yourself answering the following questions:
1. If you wrote an autobiography of your life in your 20s so far, what would the first chapter be called? What would the last chapter be called?”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D840SYGa-00]
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Hey James,
I enjoyed reading your post as usual. Incorporating V-logs into your blogs seems like a cool idea and is something I will checkout. Have you heard of http://12seconds.tv/ ? It is kind of a cool take on V-Logging and building your personal brand in a cool way. I hope you don’t mind but I’ve added you to my blogroll. Hope you can check it out sometime!
All the best,
Joseph
I love that your last chapter is “Not What I Expected.” So true, and if we can all settle in for the ride, we’d be a lot happier!
Great post.
Joseph – Thanks for checking out the blog and adding to the roll. Don’t think I’ve heard of 12 seconds. I’ll look into it.
Rebecca – Thanks for commenting. I really think this point in life is really exciting. We are in many ways just getting to the good part of our “stories”. There’ll be lots of surprises, but I’m sure the conclusion will be good, so for now I’ve just got to have fun with the ride. (Part of that fun is reading Modite. Keep up the good work over there!)