Your life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back
Your life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back
Narratives help us understand the world, but they can limit our thinking and diminish our ability to live freely. They give us the illusion that the world is ordered and logical, reducing the real complexity of life. We should focus on perspectives instead of narratives to open ourselves up to other possibilities.
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this essay seems to assume that narrative thinking is static and that all self narratives have to come together logically and that a focus on "perspectives" is what allows self narratives to be broken and new possibilities/stories can emerge.
it's unclear if this is true and that most folks attempt to stick to only one narrative or that they force all their narratives to try and emerge into one consistent story.
with that said, being open to change, learning and re-defining one self do feel like good qualities, though at the same time can be just as dangerous as sticking to one unhealthy narrative.
life is hard and it is not made any easier by the irrationality and complexity of the real world that is bigger than all our narratives put together.
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