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Powered by technology, we get to choose what’s real, and what best suits our own stories. We’re all gaming reality. And the stakes are high whatever we choose to believe: Q-Anon, voter fraud, GameStop, coronavirus, climate change, 1/6, Sandy Hook, the Parkland shooting. Belief is membership. The more who sign up, the more it makes…
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Inspirational storytelling is also aspirational: even as it necessarily integrates the creator’s subjectivity, thoughtful universalities invite us to see who we’d like to be in the offered narrative.
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We’ve all made room for more forms of inspiration by giving ourselves permission to create and connect differently in the past year. Here’s to accepting our muse when and where we can find it, similarly using the best-available tools.
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Dear Hendrix and Rose: The stories we tell ourselves are even more powerful than the ones we tell others. Done right, they center our place in the world. Who are we? Sometimes, we can overdo them. That’s usually when we think we’re the center of the universe. Why are we? Stories give us the certainty to push on. When…