how are you talking about yourself today?
Identity is the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what the future holds for us, and when critical feedback is incoming, that story is under attack.
Douglas Stone • Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Other people’s perception of you is a direct response to how you talk about yourself. Therefore, by taking control of this narrative you can make it easier for people to see you in the way that you want to be seen.
Sara Nasser Dalrymple • More Sales Please: Promote your small business online, make consistent sales, grow without the grind
We also have strong personal narratives – those we tell ourselves about our lives and identity – maybe that we’re a failure and our lives have come to naught, or that we’re special enough that the limits that apply to others don’t apply to us, or that human beings are so fundamentally evil that anyone’s bold, imaginative thinking about a positive f
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
We also have strong personal narratives – those we tell ourselves about our lives and identity – maybe that we’re a failure and our lives have come to naught, or that we’re special enough that the limits that apply to others don’t apply to us, or that human beings are so fundamentally evil that anyone’s bold, imaginative thinking about a positive f
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
We also have strong personal narratives – those we tell ourselves about our lives and identity – maybe that we’re a failure and our lives have come to naught, or that we’re special enough that the limits that apply to others don’t apply to us, or that human beings are so fundamentally evil that anyone’s bold, imaginative thinking about a positive f
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The more you build your self-conception
on memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and the more you try to give yourself an identity
by constructing a narrative of your life, the less likely you are to understand who and what
you really are.
on memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and the more you try to give yourself an identity
by constructing a narrative of your life, the less likely you are to understand who and what
you really are.
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Mary Martin added
Galen Strawson
Michael Lewis on how your narrative crafts your character:
If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves. Some people are always the victim. Some people always get unlucky. Some people are always in the middle of some impossible project. Some people are always hav... See more
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