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Eric Siu explains how telling your personal stories builds self-knowledge and self-awareness, helping you define your identity, values, and relationships. Regular storytelling creates a life record and is a prerequisite for self-acceptance.
Eric Siu explains how telling your personal stories builds self-knowledge and self-awareness, helping you define your identity, values, and relationships. Regular storytelling creates a life record and is a prerequisite for self-acceptance.
Why is it important for us to tell stories? His answer was very different than what you expect. His answer was so that we can know who we are, so that when people question us, we're like, no, I've told my story to myself enough times that your story doesn't match how I see me. And so we need to get into the practice of telling our story about who we are, what our beliefs and values are, and where we come from, and who we honor, who we love, who we dislike. We have to keep telling that because that becomes part of our track. In terms of the record of our life, right? So people who aren't in the practice of telling their story don't know themselves. So before you can get to self-acceptance, you have to get to self-awareness, and they're missing that self-awareness.
