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
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.
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It does not need to be easily describable in its entirety, or clearly attributable to any philosophical school; although it should stand up to scrutiny and enquiry, being thought through and considered. It must give us a solid foundation without limiting us by insisting on a set of beliefs. If we don’t assume more conscious authorship of our storie
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Like all others, the story of your significance is just that: a story. A narrative. A tale. If you don’t like the story, you can change the story. Even better, you can drop it altogether and write a new one. “In order to change skins, evolve into new cycles,” author Anaïs Nin writes, “one has to learn to discard.”
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The phrase suggests that what we were given to be at birth, the role predestined for us, may yet be improvised in a different direction. Nor is religion the only stimulus to this kind of rebirth. Counselling and psychoanalysis can have the same effect, as they encourage us to explore our own history and identify the facts and forces that formed us.