Zero to 1: Meaning is Found in our Stories
5 INSIGHTS
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Meaning is found in the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world
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Our narratives define our relationship with life.
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Throughout the day we think ~50,000 thoughts; these thoughts define the story of our life.
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Our emotions are like mirrors of our minds, reflecting back the core meaning of our stories.
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Even in the worst situations, we can decide what story to tell ourselves and what it means. This is our one true freedom.
6 Quotes
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"We are not merely the sum of our experiences; we are the story we tell ourselves about our experiences."
Joan Didion
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"Man is always a teller of tales. He lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others; he sees everything that happens to him through them, and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story."
Michael Margolis
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“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless."
Salman Rushdie
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"The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come."
Steve Jobs
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Viktor Frankl
1 Question
What types of stories do you think about daily?