What Story Are You Telling Yourself? |
The story you tell yourself is the most important story. You learn that story from a thousand sources—your caregivers, your authority figures, your family, friends, peers, teachers, and your experiences.
What story do you tell yourself?
I buried myself in books as a child to escape a ferocious family. While they were busy taking no prisoners, I read fairy tales, King Arthur, Greek and Roman myths, adventure stories, biographies, the Arabian Nights, Narnia and Middle Earth—everything I could get my pudgy little fingers on. So the story I told myself involved righting wrongs, accepting invitations to dangerous quests, rescuing fair maidens, and working out your destiny on the long and dusty road to adventure.
Is your world basically good, or........