Podcast - Episode 0209 - Power Of Narratives

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• Meta-narrative: one overarching story that explains reality. We are all bought into the same narrative.
• All of us have a narrative.
• We tend to assume other people buy into our narrative.
• What are our narratives and how do they influence us?
• Try to understand the power of narrative in creating the life you want.
• The stories you tell yourself create your reality.
• Thinker/Thinks podcast
• Like a fish in water. The water is the narrative, and we are the fish.
• Middle Earth vs. Star Trek Federation
• Ontological differences can be massive.
• If our interpretation of the world is only a story/narrative, it can be a bit disempowering.
• If we can’t accept that our interpretation is a story, we are going to overvalue that story.
• It isn’t good to believe our narrative is the only narrative, and it’s not good to believe that nothing is real.
• There is a middle ground where we can understand that everyone has a narrative and still agree to assimilate into a collective narrative.
• Like color. We all seem to agree with what is considered red. But how do we know that other people are seeing red in the same way we do?
• Remember that we have narratives just like everyone else.
• How can we change our narrative from, “I’m the worst person who ever lived” to “I am a human being like everyone else with strengths and weaknesses.”
• Once you understand these are all stories/narratives the more agile you become in your thoughts and perspectives.
• Two factions are emerging in the political atmosphere of the US.
• They can’t even agree on the story. They see reality completely differently.
• Disagreement isn’t over particulars it is fundamental to the stories we are telling ourselves.
• How do we navigate a world where people don’t even see the same reality?
• Sometimes divergent sides are playing the same game, just opposite sides.
• Narratives can help us identify how we are similar to others.
• If we are reluctant to let go of our narrative, we can try to shoehorn other people’s narratives under ours to make it the definitive truth.
• This looks like openness to other narratives, but it’s actually a diagnosis of their narrative.
• How many of us have been taught: “If it weren’t for God’s grace I’d be a drunk in the gutter?”
• As if, once we untether from that baked-in narrative, there’s nothing else to tether us.
• Once we let the narrative that forms our morality go, we have nothing to tether to and corruption is the feared result.
• We see people’s narratives duking it out all the time. We call it war.
• How do we use these narratives for personal empowerment?
• It hearkens back to addiction. Many people trade one narrative for another, just like they trade one addiction for another.
• Are you addicted to your narrative?
• Do you act like a junky when someone tries to pull it away?
• Can you not see outside of your narrative?
• When someone questions it, do you start to freak out?
• If you believe that giving up one narrative will only result in the adoption of a more harmful narrative, is it because you know you traded one addiction for another?
• Empowerment comes from letting go of the addictions.
• Be open to change. You can likely trace previous narratives that changed. Have you ever believed in Santa Claus?
• If you truly believe you will become a drunk in the gutter if you leave your current narrative, then your relationship with your narrative/story is controlling you. You aren’t in control.
• If you can’t handle life without your narrative/story, you may have an addiction to it.
• Whenever you encounter someone else’s narrative, you will try to shoehorn it into yours.
• As human beings, we can’t resolve major conflicts if we refuse to allow that other people’s narratives/stories are just as true as ours.
• Hold your narratives loosely.
• If we could all do this, we could end war.
• We hold the power within ourselves.
• It’s not the narrative that holds the power. It’s our attachment to it.
• These podcasts are narratives. We try to cast a narrative to give you a more empowered perspective.
• Let’s work together to create open frame empowering narratives.

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