Your life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back | Psyche Ideas
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Your life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back | Psyche Ideas
A branch of clinical psychology called “narrative therapy” holds that we all walk around, day in and day out, telling ourselves the stories of our lives. (As Ashleigh Brilliant once put it, “My life has great characters; I just haven’t figured out the plot.”) No storyteller can describe everything that ever happens to a hero; as autobiographers, we
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The non-linear approach is different – rather than trying to discover a particular arc path and follow it to its conclusion, it recognizes that there will be many different moments and opportunities to create meaning that arise in our life. The idea is not that we will participate in one story that can be easily wrapped up by our biographers – but ... See more
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On having a single dimension purpose, living in a “purpose economy,” chasing our calling in a neat story arc like in the movies, versus the idea that maybe real life is chaos and recognizing that and intentionally savoring it
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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Meanwhile, the life story we should be seeking out, identifying with and proudly proclaiming, has been obscured. Our pathologies are not badges of honour but helpful alarm bells: reminders from the psyche that we have reached the edge of the path and need to re-orient to move forward into whatever greatness might be on offer for us. We can pay atte
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Even though all these big stories are fictions generated by our own minds, there is no reason for despair. Reality still exists. You cannot play a part in any make-believe drama, but why would you want to do that in the first place? The big question facing humans isn’t “what is the meaning of life?” but rather “how do we stop suffering?” When you g
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It is the story we recreate and live out for ourselves every day that not only defines our past but also defines us, and stories are things we can change. The first step is to seek a perspective that allows us to see the story for what it is.