Have you ever noticed that in a lot of stories, the beginning is the best part? It’s the most interesting, novel, and enjoyable part.
For example, as a kid, I used to love re-reading the part in Harry Potter where he figured out he was actually a wizard and then got to go on a magical shopping trip in Diagon Alley.
It appears film audiences and Hollywood executives feel the same way: that’s why they have rebooted the Spiderman movies twice in the last decade, and why the re-makes of the Star Wars movies have such obvious parallels to "A New Hope.”
How is this relevant to you? Well, the more successful you are and the more you share your ideas with the world, the more often you’ll have to tell your own “origin story.”
Enjoy this excerpt from my book, Maple Seeds, where Soryu Forall describes his own origin story:
When I was four years old, I was standing in the kitchen near the wastebasket looking up past the edge of the kitchen counter at my mother while she made dinner. I told her very clearly, “We must do something right now.” I was referring to the human destruction of life on earth and the fact that we need to stop it. This moment of clarity as a four year-old became a guiding event in my life.
It's that I made that story significant by telling it, and telling it, and telling it again. By telling it, I made my identity. I made my life.
What is your origin story? Do you have one, or a few? Decide on an origin story to tell, and invest in it - make that story significant - by telling it.
What's next?