Origin Story | No Mercy / No Malice
If you want to decipher who you are, it’s good to begin with the question of what stories have been told about you. Do this not because they are true but because they will help you locate the mirages and their origins. They will help you rend mask from flesh. They may also help you grab hold of something real.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Our personal narratives—and the characters in those stories—form our identities.
Carmine Gallo • The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't
Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, explains the connection between your story and authenticity brilliantly, “We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell ourselves. That has always been true. But personal narrative has become more prevalent, and perhaps
... See moreWilliam Arruda • Digital You: Real Personal Branding in the Virtual Age
We are the sum of our experiences, the culmination of everything that has come before. The more we know about our past, the better we know ourselves. The greater our storehouse of memory, the more complete our personal narrative becomes. Our life begins to feel full and complete and important.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
We are desperate for knowledge of self, but even more, we are aching for the stories that have made us.