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Are we all the heroes of our own stories? (with Cate Hall)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Connection Between Identity and Being the Hero of the Story

The identity people build for themselves has a lot to do with what narratives are available to them that preserve that role in their own lives. I think taking the example of QAnon, I think what happens there is people who have a general absence of meaning in their lives,. One of their last refuges for maintaining this self-story about heroism is to think, well, at least I figured something out that other people haven't.

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