“It’s sort of like people put out a new version of themselves and lived their way into it,” Adler says.
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- Aug 2020
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In cases like this, for people who have gone through a lot of trauma, it might be better for them not to autobiographically reason about it at all.
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The trouble comes when redemption isn’t possible. The redemptive American tale is one of privilege, and for those who can’t control their circumstances, and have little reason to believe things will get better, it can be an illogical and unattainable choice. There are things that happen to people that cannot be redeemed.
Not true. This is flipped. There are things that people do that are unredeemable.
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contamination themes tend to coincide with poorer mental health.
Contamination of an otherwise good life. When you can't move past the bad, and drag your projected narrative down to hell, instead of imagining a redemptive future.
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Once certain stories get embedded into the culture, they become master narratives
Now this is the thing man. I feel like I constantly have archetypes floating around in my head. The way I deal with verbal conflict is influenced a lot by movies and books. At least, it feels that way.
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If you don’t tell, “your memory for that event may be less flexible and give you less chance for growth
I want to talk with some people about doing funny things like cooking ground beef
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Is there anyone out there with a life story that's not a story at all, but some other kind of more disjointed, avant-garde representation of their existence?
We consider our lives like any book. The important bits stick out, we've kind of forgotten the beginning but what we just read is pretty accessable.
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for who they’ll become
This is important because I think people really do base their actions off narratives they construct, and it ends up manifesting a reality that matches their projections. Life imitates art.
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“Sometimes in cases of extreme autism, people don’t construct a narrative structure for their lives,” says Jonathan Adler, an assistant professor of psychology at Olin College of Engineering, “but the default mode of human cognition is a narrative mode.”
Author should expand upon this, because it's interesting
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