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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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How Does Storytelling Contribute to a Sense of Self?
Who we think we are is the story that we tell ourselves and tell other people about who we who we are. You know, you could take two people who had the same experience on a particular day but they would have completely different stories about it because it would mean different things to them. And so it's in that retelling that we construct a sense of self and who we are in the world.
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