THE STORY LAB

A few weeks ago, I permanently closed my business Instagram account.  It was a decision I had been mulling over for months, but like a kid who can never escape the social pressures of junior high, I kept tuning in, kept playing the social capital game, kept trying to fit in to the Millennial-powered platform, […]

We are all stepping into story with a very particular paradigm. We each have a worldview that shapes how we see and how we tell stories, and that worldview shapes the TRUTH we emerge with.

And when you don’t know what your paradigm is, when you’ve not done the work of discovering the pieces of your own worldview, then story loses its power – over you + over everyone else in your orbit.

// It started with Jonathan Gottschall // “You spend 6 years of your life dreaming,” he says in his book, Storytelling Animal.  2,190 days running away from our enemies, crashing in cars, getting killed by strangers, showing up naked in high schools.  Our dreams are rife with struggle, and for good reason, says Gottschall.  They’re […]