Be The Pot Roast
Feb 18, 2021
My father is particularly good at what I call "sticky storytelling": telling memorable stories to teach important life-lessons. He does this when we're online just talking, but he probably doesn't realise that I often take notes...and later find a way to use them!
A while ago, when I was preparing to present a speech about uncertainty (long before COVID was a thing), I decided to share one of my Dad's sticky-stories.
We’d been talking about ‘going with the flow’ in life, when he mentioned having a dream about a juicy, perfectly browned, succulent pot roast that was so tender, the meat fell off the bone. Only he was the pot roast. And he happened to be floating down a stream in the dream. When he struggled against the current, and fought where it was trying to take him, he started to fall apart.
When I was looking for stories to weave through my ‘uncertainty’ speech, that pot roast image kept coming back. Maybe...
A while ago, when I was preparing to present a speech about uncertainty (long before COVID was a thing), I decided to share one of my Dad's sticky-stories.
We’d been talking about ‘going with the flow’ in life, when he mentioned having a dream about a juicy, perfectly browned, succulent pot roast that was so tender, the meat fell off the bone. Only he was the pot roast. And he happened to be floating down a stream in the dream. When he struggled against the current, and fought where it was trying to take him, he started to fall apart.
When I was looking for stories to weave through my ‘uncertainty’ speech, that pot roast image kept coming back. Maybe...