before we welcome the weekend are you up for some introspection we'll take that as a yes and we have a question for you what makes you you your intelligence your creativity your anger your kindness what raw ingredients make up your personality or anyone's for that matter for more than a century scientists have been trying to answer this question they've studied everything from physiology to genes to circumstan is to understand what makes a personality but something seem to be missing so over the past decade they've added one more item to this list stories first person accounts
the life stories that people tell themselves about who they are now you may think stories are well just stories but they do matter and studies prove this stories change how we think about ourselves how we behave they help us adapt grow and change our lives our narratives now the stories we're talking about are not rants or gossip Laden Tales researchers have a name for this kind of Storytelling it is called Life review and this is a systematic process of reflecting on one's past it could be done in writing or through conversations think of it like
writing a screenplay we visualize the setting the characters the scenes and it matters how we visualize them what we include and and what we don't research says that this affects how we feel about our lives for instance if we try to remember the good things in a bad experience it can improve well-being this won't work every time every incident does not have to be meaningful but most things that seem boring or hard can just be plot points studies show that this can reduce depression it can increase life satisfaction what's more Life review can also Force
us to connect the dots to understand why we are are the way we are it pushes us to explore our ancestry which in turn boosts mental well-being it makes us feel more connected plus taking stock of life is not just looking back it can also help us find the next chapter in life it it can help us find purpose and this too is good for us it may even help you live longer but this is not even the best part do you know what is the fact that we get to update the screenplay based on
our perspective and our experiences each stage of Life comes with different challenges which is obvious to most of us but studies prove this too so things that seemed important before things that turned turned our lives upside down may not seem as important now like your exams or breakups and a Life review can help us accept these changes better researchers say it is valuable for people at all ages because it helps all of us it helps us to reflect in fact the impulse to document Our Lives is as old as time the human brain loves building
narratives fun fact that's how we remember facts better when they are in a story and not in a list so whether it's a Life review or a digital diary or social media storytelling has ancient Roots only now we know that this narrative is important and if we know so does capitalism so there is an entire industry built around our memories companies are making our digital photo albums ghost writers are offering to write Memoirs exotic Retreats are inviting guests to write life stories sounds like a heavy duty vacation but at the end of the day it
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