STEP 1

What’s the Story?

“You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it’s really made up of stories”

William Turner

Figure 2.1 What’s the Story? Urgency and Vision

As humans, we need stories. We make meaning through them, understand the world, explain the unexplainable, predict the future, analyze the past and walk through the present with stories. We crave them, beg for them, make them up, dream them and change them to fit our needs. In many ways we are the stories that we tell ourselves, the self-fulfilling prophecy, both positive and negative, always just a story away in our hearts and minds, and indeed in our actions. ...

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