Part 1: Christian O'Connell on the habit that means he never runs out of stories

**&nbsp;Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm)&nbsp;here&nbsp;and order The Energy Game book&nbsp;here.**&nbsp; What if the&nbsp;stories&nbsp;you're&nbsp;most afraid to tell are the ones people most need to hear?&nbsp; Christian O'Connell has spent 28 years pulling stories out of strangers on live radio.&nbsp;He's&nbsp;had two number one breakfast shows on opposite sides of the planet. And yet off-air, he still catches himself at dinner with his family thinking he&nbsp;hasn't&nbsp;said anything funny in a couple of minutes, and that inner critic&nbsp;starting&nbsp;to spiral.&nbsp; In part one of&nbsp;our&nbsp;two-part conversation, I sit down with Christian to explore what&nbsp;he's&nbsp;learned from&nbsp;nearly three&nbsp;decades of live storytelling&nbsp;-&nbsp;and why most of us are telling our stories all wrong.&nbsp; Whether you tell stories&nbsp;for&nbsp;a living or&nbsp;you just want&nbsp;to hold a room for 30 seconds at a dinner party, this conversation will give you a completely&nbsp;different way&nbsp;to think about why some stories land and others&nbsp;don't.&nbsp; Christian and I discuss:&nbsp; The woodshed: the note-taking habit Christian uses so&nbsp;he's&nbsp;never stuck for something to say&nbsp; Why the stories you least want to tell are usually the ones that land hardest&nbsp; The two levels inside every story, and why most of us only ever tell one of them&nbsp; The physical test Christian uses to decide if a story is worth sharing&nbsp; Why the best storytellers relive rather than retell, and what that looks like in practice&nbsp; How speaking anxiety comes down to one thing, and&nbsp;it's&nbsp;not what most people think&nbsp; Key quotes&nbsp; "Vulnerability is the currency of great storytelling. If there's no&nbsp;vulnerability in&nbsp;here, there's no real connection in it."&nbsp; "The more you dial into the particulars of a story, somehow it becomes more universal."&nbsp; Connect with Christian O'Connell on&nbsp;Instagram,&nbsp;<a href="https://