how are you talking about yourself today?
Your life is, in some sense, a series of definitions of success.
Elizabeth • Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition — LessWrong
A person’s identity is not to be found in behavior… but in the capacity to keep a particular narrative going. —Anthony Giddens, sociologist
Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Some may be familiar with the idea of our having a narrator that is infrequently quiet, informing us of the life we are living, and not always using only words. Each of us lives within a story we believe we occupy.
Curt Thompson MD • The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves
