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As easy as ABC
As easy as ABC
| 1 | Hello. My name is Tony Cook. I am | you educated, they get you thinking, | |||||
| bald. It’s quite a story how | they get you |  | |||||
| I ended up bald. Everything is a story. | communicating, | ||||||
| Every little bit of your life is a story. | and they get you | ||||||
| I invented ABCtales.com, the most | helping others. | ||||||
| useful website for storytellers in the | 5 | I’ll tell you a | |||||
| whole world. That’s why we get | story. I used to | ||||||
| English language stories from | work in radio. I was a sports man. The | ||||||
| Shanghai and Buenos Aires as well as | big mouth who could shout the result, | ||||||
| London and New York. ABCtales is a | analyse field tactics, and also have a | ||||||
| huge meeting place of storytellers. Get | sensible thing or two to say about | ||||||
| out of prison, tell us your story, escape | things like the war in Iraq. I was Mr | ||||||
| from a lover, tell us your story. | Dynamic. And then the blow struck. | ||||||
| 2 | One percent of the world writes | I got ME1). I lost all my 34 . At times | |||||
| stories. A storytelling site like this | I was so weak, I couldn’t even get out | ||||||
| begins with someone who is forever | of bed. | ||||||
| finding stories in everything he or she | 6 | Then I took my imagination for a | |||||
| does. The appetite for telling and | walk. I reconstructed my world by | ||||||
| writing stories is like breathing. | imagining, by building my stories. By | ||||||
| 3 | I ran into a cleaner one day and | strengthening my mind, I strengthened | |||||
| she asked me what I do for a living. | my body. Though I’m now back on top, | ||||||
| I told her that I collect stories from | I still have to watch out. I spoke to | ||||||
| people and we put them on our | other people who had been down there | ||||||
| website. So we go round catching | and come back. I realised that the | ||||||
| tales. “Catching tales? What does this | break in my career brought me nearer | ||||||
| mean, she asked?” I told her that | to doing what I was best at: writing, | ||||||
| people often have a story to tell, but | collecting and supporting the story | ||||||
| they don’t know where to begin. Give | process. | ||||||
| them a piece of paper and they freeze | 7 | And now for the baldness! Well, | |||||
| up. But get them to tell it and it flows. | you see what happened, I was skiing | ||||||
| 4 | That’s what we do at ABCtales. | down a slope when I tumbled over and | |||||
| The wonderful joy of seeing people | banged my head. A few weeks later, | ||||||
| start a story and soar. You meet | all my hair started falling out. I lost all | ||||||
| people through storytelling. You | my hair in a month, which made me | ||||||
| sharpen your world view. In fact, it’s | more cuddly. And that’s how I intend to | ||||||
| better than most other things in the | stay, but that’s another story. | ||||||
| world. A good story, well told, is like | |||||||
| finding the meaning of life. Stories get | noot 1 ME = chronische vermoeidheidsziekte | ||||||