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app. Space Studio. Hi there. Welcome to Radio Head Space and to Wednesday, it's Eve here with you. Today I wanted to spend some time talking about the

stories we tell ourselves and that very often what we believe is happening is actually fiction and not fact.

I was speaking with a friend about this recently. She'd convinced herself that she was not going to get a job that she'd been

interviewing for. In her final interview, where she was meeting the CEO, She was understandably a little nervous,

and she said she thought it showed.

She walked away from the interview,

thinking that she'd tanked it,

and that she was never going to get the job.

The story she was weaving in her mind was that she wasn't good enough for the job.

The other candidates would never have been so nervous,

and she definitely wasn't going to get it.

Hopefully you can see where I'm going with this.

It was all fiction. She got the job.

Not only did she get the job, but she received glowing

feedback from everyone. The CEO even sent her message saying

congratulations.

Our mind loves to make sense of the world by weaving narratives,

but the power of the stories we tell ourselves can be very limiting and they really shape our perceptions and beliefs about ourselves and the world around us, which in turn can hold us back or impact our relationships. My friend spent so much time talking down to herself instead of seeing that there could be a completely

different reality. She focused on all the little failures she perceived to have

occurred.

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