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What stories do you tell about yourself that may be limiting your behavior.
When you change your behavior you must also update your self-concept to match.
Some identities you held in the past no longer serve you — release them deliberately.
There is no pre-existing meaning waiting to be discovered — you build it.
You often do not understand the meaning of an experience until much later.
The stories you tell about your life create the meaning of your life.
The ability to create meaning from raw experience is what makes us uniquely human.
You choose which experiences to include in your story — the selection creates the identity.
The same life events can be framed as tragedy growth comedy or adventure.
Stories where bad experiences lead to good outcomes produce more resilience.
Stories where you are an active agent produce better outcomes than stories where things happen to you.
The story you tell about where you are going shapes your current decisions and motivation.
You can hold several valid narratives about your life simultaneously.
Much of therapeutic work is narrative revision — changing the story to change the experience.
Changing what you value most is not fickleness — it is maturation.