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Name, Place, Animal, Thing: Find One Story You Forgot

Hosted by Lux Narayan

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What you'll learn

Find where your own stories actually live

The four boxes of a childhood game, turned on the life you've already lived. You'll know where to look.

Recover at least one moment you'd forgotten

Not a hypothetical. Something specific out of your own past, surfacing while you sit there.

See why your best stories aren't on your resume

In a room where everyone holds your credentials, the unpolished ones are what get remembered.

Get a preview of how AI tools can help

AI can do the filing and indexing, and help with shaping. So, a story you mine is findable the day you actually need it.

Why this topic matters

AI can write your post, deck or bio. It cannot write your lived experience. Thirty years of stories, and most of us still answer "So, what do you do?" with a job title. The ones that would land are sitting right there, unexamined. Name, Place, Animal, Thing is a schoolyard game where everyone races to fill four boxes. It's also the title of my book, because the same boxes work on a lifetime of your stories waiting to be mined.

You'll learn from

Lux Narayan

Founder · TED Speaker, 2M views · Author · Occasional Comedian

Lux Narayan has spent two million views' worth of attention on one question: what makes a life legible to other people. That's his TED talk, on what obituaries reveal about living well. It's also his storytelling method: find the story before you tell it.

He wrote Name, Place, Animal, Thing, a fable about hope and living your best life, and an Amazon bestseller for one glorious day. He founded StreamAlive after two years of watching live audiences get ignored — it's now Zoom's top-rated education and AI app. Before that he co-founded Unmetric, acquired by Cision. He does stand-up when they let him.

His grandfather started the first public speaking school in Madras in the early 1970s. His uncle still runs it. Three generations, one obsession: getting a room to say something true, out loud.

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