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
We are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as Didio... See more
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