for people to write about what makes the human mind so special, perhaps the most popular answer is that it has made or provided us the capability of language and logic.

And of course these are language and logic are very, very powerful tools.

The ability to narrate our life and to add concepts to our life allows us to not only tell the stories of our existence, but to in many ways help us learn from experience and

help guide us and through life allows us to self-regulate. We have a little inner chatter that tells us what things we shouldn't do and can do.

A little interjected parent voice in there.

And when things go awry in life, very often we rely on this narrating voice in the mind to help us make sense of what's happened. So for example if I was a saxophone, it's not coming up with a ridiculous, my dad loved the saxophone. I've never particularly had any experience with it.

So, but if I were a saxophonist and I had a jazz band, say, it was an avant-garde jazz band, and making the saxophone single for you.

This example is just an excuse for me to make weird little sacks things with my hand.

And I released an album and the album got poor reviews.

I could mitigate the experience by adding a story about it.

I could say, well, who cares what critics think?

Or, well, maybe the critics didn't like it, but my fans of the band like it.

Or it doesn't matter what a people think about a first album there are many

more albums I could do or I could think well I'll take into consideration the criticism

and I'll do something a little bit different. I'll learn from the experience.

So all I'm doing in each of those cases to mitigate the disappointment of the negative reviews

is I'm re- remarating the experience telling it, adding a few concepts such as who cares what critics think or my fans like it or there is always more opportunities or etc.

So I'm adding a couple of concepts to help make the experience of getting the negative reviews easier.

We do this all the time.

When we get criticized, setbacks in careers,

money problems, all kinds of difficulties. We rely on the narrating mind to spin the story

in a way that helps mitigate the pain,

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