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Choose the Story
Narratives frame reality.
Seth Thomas
May 25, 2025
If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the stories. If you want to change a culture, change the stories.
Good Morning. We inhabit the explanations we repeat. Rewrite a story and you redraw the perimeter of possibility.
Today’s Challenge
Take a limiting story you tell yourself, rewrite it in the third person, and end with an open question rather than a period.
🧠 Fascinating Stimuli:
Book of the Week
 | A richly detailed memoir capturing Dyer's upbringing in postwar Cheltenham, England. Blending humor and vivid recollections, it offers insights into class, aspiration, and familial dynamics. He writes about growing up in postwar Cheltenham with this mix of dry humor and sharp insight that makes even the mundane feel meaningful. It’s less about big life events and more about the small, weird details that shape who we become. If you like reflective writing that doesn’t take itself too seriously, this one’s a gem. |
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