Quotes About Struggle

that talked about loving either darkness or loving light, and how hard it is to love light and how easy it is to love darkness. I think that is true. Ultimately, we do what we love to do. I like to think that I do things for the right reasons, but I don't, I do things because I do or don't love doing them. Because of sin, because I am self-addicted, living in the wreckage of the fall, my body, my heart, and my affections are prone to love things that kill me.

The only two motivations a hero has in a story are to escape something bad or experience something good. Such is life.

Step 1: Problem

I knew all about story at this point, about how you have to create a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

The problem is the hook. If a story doesn't have a problem, the story never gets started.

Once an ambition has been decided, a positive turn is an event that moves the protagonist closer to the ambition, and a negative turn moves the protagonist away from his ambition. All

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

A chance of hope is no pacifier against a sure tragedy.

What you were really waiting for was for something to challenge the protagonist.

It made me think about the hard lives so many people have had, the sacrifices they've endured, and how those people will see heaven differently from those of us who have had easier lives.

STORYBRAND PRINCIPLE SIX: EVERY HUMAN BEING IS TRYING TO AVOID A TRAGIC ENDING.

A story starts with a hero who wants something. And then the question becomes: Will the hero get what she wants?

Example from the StoryBrand one-liner: Most business leaders struggle to talk about what they do, so we've created a communication framework that helps people clarify their message. When you clarify your message, word starts to spread about your company and your business grows.

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

The idea is that you place a gap between a character and what they want.

All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual. A story about anything else won't work to captivate an audience.

This is the Failure section. Stories love tension. A story without stakes is no story at all. For example, let me tell you a story and you try to figure out how we can make the story a little better:

you have to create a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

A story that fails to get started always has the same problem: there is no conflict!

In fact, most stories start with a character who wants something followed by a scene in which an enormous challenge is placed between where the character is and what the character wants.

A story doesn't really pick up until the hero needs to disarm a bomb, win someone's heart, defeat a villain, or fight for their emotional or physical survival.

Our desire to avoid pain motivates us to seek a resolution to our problems.

When we're waiting for a story get started, we're really waiting for a problem the hero has to overcome. We're waiting for something tough or difficult or scary or painful to happen.

I could be judging unfairly, but all the people I've met who've really changed from unhealthy to healthy have a story, a story about hitting rock bottom, realizing what they were doing wrong, and radically changing the way they live so they don't repeat their mistakes. Characters only change when they live through a story.