Most Biographies Are Boring As Sh*t
How to write a magical biography
It’s Tree Langdon from Medium and Linked In.
Most people’s biographies make me go to sleep.
Lists of accomplishments, awards, and jobs you’ve held. Who cares.
I wanted to write something exciting. Something interesting.
For most of my life, I worked in business. The last two decades have been completely different.
I chose to make changes in my life that affected my perspective on most things, including myself. I traded my calculator for tools that leak magic onto the page.
Becoming open to new experiences allowed me to receive new concepts of living, and that allowed more expansion.
When I was asked to write another biography, I fell back into old habits. I listed my degrees and accomplishments.
Boring.
It wasn’t a biography of a creative, magical person.
I wanted to be able to weave spells with words, shaping them into containers that carried emotions into the minds and hearts of souls far away.
I realized I had to change my thoughts to shift my energy.
First, I brainstormed a list of all of the things I’d done in the past decade.
They included the big things:
joining an online writing class
breaking my wrist in Greece
getting a tattoo
undergoing major heart surgery
They also included simple things like:
gardening in my yard
going back to school
getting older
Every one of these events contained a lesson and a type of energy I could describe if I chose to see them in a new way.
Here’s how:
Joining an online writing class
I wanted to describe how much this class impacted me and how it changed my life, so I played with words until I came up with this:
