The stories we tell ourselves
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In a recent Instagram story, Crystal shared a snippet of a workshop she conducted. She shared a scenario, Greg interrupting her during a conversation. She could get annoyed and think " Oh Greg's horrible, he interrupted because he doesn't respect me. " Or she could think, " Greg's very excited about his new project and he can't wait to share it with me. " And she'll feel very differently depending on the story she tells herself. Crystal says, "We need to learn to separate facts from stories." The homework she gave to her attendees was to go home and think of alternative stories to something that has happened. --- Was facilitating a workshop on Friday and we had to work together on a creative task. A student shared the activity was akin to improv. Before we even began, I shared out loud, "oh no, I'm not creative. I'm going to do so badly at this." Dave who heard my thoughts said, "that's the story you te