Vividness Best Practices

To leverage a powerful cognitive concept called ‘narrative transportation,’ in which your audience almost unconsciously exchanges their reality for the world in your story, your stories need vividness. To achieve vividness, think about the five senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste. And intentionally incorporate one or two of the senses in key sentences. Compare these two examples:

Sentence 1: The meeting was tense.

Sentence 2: Chairs creaked as people shifted, no one spoke, and the only sound was the CEO tapping her pen, faster and faster against the table.

In Sentence 2, you can hear the creaking chair, hear the silence, hear the tapping pen. You can see the shifting people and see the CEO tapping.

Yes, vivid content is longer. But vivid sentences like Sentence 2 do remarkably effective work at pulling your audiences into your story ... which is exactly what you want.

Interviews. Applications. Leadership moments. Introductions.

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You have the experiences.
Storytelling helps you make sense of them so that you can clearly explain who you are and what sets you apart.

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The Storied Me is a guided, self-paced experience that helps you turn your experiences into a clear, defining story—step by step.

You’ll follow a structured process to build your story from the ground up, then receive targeted feedback on your full draft to help you refine and strengthen it.

Whether you’re preparing for an interview, writing an application, leading a team, or introducing yourself in a high-stakes moment, you’ll learn how to clearly explain who you are and what sets you apart.

Developed through years of teaching in university classrooms and executive programs, this approach reflects what works in real-world communication.

By the end, you’ll have a clear, well-structured story you can use when it matters most.