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

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I'm really not sure, and I'm not here to tell you to burn your DVD player and throw out your Tolstoy. To think in terms of stories is fundamentally human. There's a Gabriel García Márquez memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, that we use stories to make sense of what we've done, to give meaning to our lives, to establish connections with other people. N... See more