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The Story of Your Life IS Your Life

On my Facebook profile, I state my religious beliefs as “The story of your life becomes your life.”
After my happiness post, I realized I didn’t comment on one of the key linchpins in happiness: storytelling.
Daniel Kahneman, in his excellent TED talk above, speaks to two different kinds of selves:

The experiencing self, or the self that [...]

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