The And we are back. We are back. I have no idea what episode this is but this is a ruminations and revelations conversation about stories

We tried to record this once and the audio failed so we have to start over again

I'm gonna preface this by just saying that, give you

you guys just a little bit of information real quick. The reason why we didn't record this a month

ago when we talked about recording it is because once we record these things, the information doesn't feel authentic anymore because we've already hashed out all of our thoughts on the whole process and it's different.

So we've given ourselves time to forget about the conversation that we had so that we can have an organic conversation with you guys about stories.

Two books that are relative here, crucial conversations.

I don't know who the author is.

It's a red book with white writing on it.

Talks about the stories from a victim, villain, and helpless mindset.

So whenever a story, whenever you tell yourself a story, you're either the victim,

you're either the villain, or you're helpless, or when other things happen to you in life you can

become the victim they can become the villain or you're helpless and they talk about that

at length so I recommend reading that book those stories also often coincide. Right, right, because in order for you to be the victim, someone has to be a villain. Right. And the helplessness episode aspect of things does kind of make you a victim to because life is happening to you and you have no control.

You know I need this job. I therefore I have to blah blah blah.

The other thing was John Deloney's book Own Your Past, Change Your Future is a book where he talks about stories being past, present, and future.

So if you tell yourself a story and you respond to a situation because your cognitive bias dictates you handle things because of your past, right?

That's your past story infiltrating your current situation moving on.

If you have a goal for something and something happens,

your future story may dictate the way that things play out

because of the things that you're telling yourself,

because your perception of situations matter, right?

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