october reading recap 📚

Why hadn’t I heard anyone advocate for taking charge of your own story before—for reviewing it, and rewriting it as needed?

Why had no one explained that if you want authority over your own life, you literally need to take the time to author it?

This is why you should start living in your past.

Because the stories we tell about our life experiences ar

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People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different f

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"My site is really a record of my becoming who I am. I started so early in my 20s. I didn’t know who I was. I wasn’t doing that much reading then. And it eventually became that. Right now, I rarely read the internet at all. I spend most of my days buried in book piles and letters and diaries and old philosophy books and what not. There’s this term ... See more