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What Good Are Our Memories If We Never Share Them?
Why Personal Stories Are So Important
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
“if we cannot tell a story about what happened to us, nothing has happened to us.” ― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games.
I'm realizing how terrible one's memory truly is. Without documenting life, it's painfully easy to forget so many important moments. This is important because we so often lean on other's memories/stories - autobiographie... See more
What we’re mostly doing at this time in our lives, then, is looking for a story to draw together the messy fragments of everything that’s happened to us and defined us up until now. We need to transform the story we tell about ourselves, to find a story in which we have more agency – and more purpose. The problem is that, in the culture we currentl... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
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 fo
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation
When doing Homework for Life, we don’t judge the moments we record because we never know what might someday accrue meaning. In the moment, we can’t ever know what might be valuable or worthy of remembering. We mark down our most storyworthy moments and move on, trusting that some of these moments will eventually become gold.