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Something that I noticed recently bothered me. A person who did not get the job that he had applied for let everyone know that he did not get it. He was angry about it, and proceeded to let everyone know that he was angry about it. I heard talk about going to a different company, I heard complaints about management, I heard just a general sense of selfishness and anger. I no longer wanted to interact with this person. What was I supposed to say? There was just a very strong sense of anger, disappointment, and an extremely bad attitude about the whole situation. I wasn't bothered because he didn't get the job, I was bothered because the way that he reacted was going to negatively affect his prospects when the next job came around. I think that that this story directly relates to the story of narratives that I am telling. I think it reinforced the idea that we have to take control of our own actions, and control only what we can. You see, the narrative that he was telling h
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Who are you?  What story do you tell yourself? Are you the victim of circumstance? The champion of your own story? Are you at center of the world stage? The questions that we ask ourselves are where our own stories begin. The ways that we see ourselves, the ways we think the world sees us, are where we begin to form how we interact with people on every level of society. From the personal, to the professional, and to the cultural levels. How do we fit in with our own friend group? Why didn’t we get the promotion at work? What is truth and how can we fit that into our cultural worldviews? These questions all start with how we see ourselves, the stories that we tell ourselves. Narratives are ingrained into every part of our society. They always have been. The Romans told themselves they were the honorable and civilized while they conquered as much of the world as they could. The Germans in WWII told themselves they were “superior” and so they had the right to do what they thought
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