Think, Laugh, Cry #45
How the stories we tell ourselves about our past determine whether we feel defeated or triumphant about identical life events
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Think
There is a strange and uncomfortable truth buried in the way we experience our own lives, and it is this: the facts of what happened to us are almost never the thing that determines how we feel about them. The facts are fixed. What we do with them is not.