Yo, today's QOD is it's not the color of your skin. It's the color of your mind. Here we go

Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and a

Sean Crox and calm. We got Reverend Ike on the show wrapping up our throwback

week. I hope you've been enjoying this week's episodes. You know, I'm reading a

book this week. I just started a couple days ago. Not done with it, but I will

recommend it. It is called The Self Delusion by Guy named Burns. In this book

really stood out to me because I love neuroscience and I love

learning about where the self image comes from or identity comes from. So the

book is about the neuroscience of how we create our identities and how we

create stories that we live by. We create stories about ourselves. We create

stories about others. We create stories about how the world works and we see our

lives. We create our lives. We perceive the world. We interpret events through

this story. And the question is like, where does this story come from? How does

it form our own identities, right? And the story comes from what we learn as

young people. What were the stories that we heard from others? What were the

stories that we heard from authoritative sources such as the media? What was

the narrative that they were telling during these very impressionable times of

our lives? And the thing about it is, I think if I remember correctly, these

stories become very stable by about the age of 12. And after that age, it is

very challenging to change these stories. Essentially, like as we're holding on

to these stories, we become almost like story writers where we edit things out

of the story that don't match the narrative of ourselves and the narrative of

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