![]() ![]() By taking the disparate pieces of our lives and placing them together into a narrative, we create a unified whole that allows us to understand our lives as coherent - and coherence, psychologists say, is a key source of meaning. ![]() Our identities and experiences are constantly shifting, and storytelling is how we make sense of it. We are all storytellers - all engaged, as the anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson puts it, in an “act of creation” of the “composition of our lives.” Yet unlike most stories we’ve heard, our lives don’t follow a predefined arc. Stocksy We’ve all created our own personal histories, marked by highs and lows, that we share with the world - and we can shape them to live with more meaning and purpose. ![]()
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