Animation: Your stories
Our brain’s attention is like a flashlight: it illuminates certain parts of our experiences.
Once they’re illuminated, you focus more on them.
From there, we tell ourselves stories about them.
These stories are often far away from the more balanced truth, but they feel so real to the person telling them. And they have a profound impact on our health and happiness.
These stories play out every day, in our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world around us. Learning how to be a happier human is, in part, about learning how to be a better storyteller who sees events with more clarity, through various perspectives, and with compassion.
Ask yourself:
⁃ What am I not paying attention to in this moment?
⁃ How would an objective observer describe what happened here?
⁃ What’s my predominant story and how am I viewing this moment through that lens?
