How To Be a Story
Most of the time, we understand ourselves as a story.
Because of the way our brains have evolved, we spend the majority of our lives experiencing ourselves, not as a biological machine, but as a set of ideas. This set of ideas, that we call our ‘identity’, is the character we play as we pursue our goals, that are the plots of our lives.
Because of the way our brains have evolved, we spend the majority of our lives experiencing ourselves, not as a biological machine, but as a set of ideas. This set of ideas, that we call our ‘identity’, is the character we play as we pursue our goals, that are the plots of our lives.