And if I want to know myself, to gain insight into the meaning of my own life, then I, too, must come to know my own story … through our personal myths, each of us discovers what is true and what is meaningful in life.*
Dan McAdams
Culture defeats tactics, every time, and culture is the most resilient component of a system.**
Seth Godin
It’s not that we decide one day
To write a story about ourselves
or not–
We toddled into stories,
Exploring worlds
of “me and everything else.”
We come to find ourselves in
familial
educational
institutional
societal, and
national narratives.
There are more than enough
ideas coming at us to last a lifetime,
To live inside someone else’s life:
We must decide
how to write our own life-myths–
Any other tactic will not work.
You need your story,
I need my story.
*Dan McAdams’ The Stories We Live By;
**Seth Godin’s This Is Strategy.
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