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#31: The Science of Storytelling (why your life is a myth)

Not Your Average Jo

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How Do You Control Your Life?

Human personality is 30 to 60 per cent heritable, according to twin adoption studies. Culture distorts and narrows our views of how we experience life because it tells us a story. We squeeze ourselves into the character that that story tells us to be in order to fit into the tribeit tells us what moral rules to follow, what we'll fight to defend. It tells us what foods to like. And you test your culture by considering alternative lifestyle styles - which i've done for the last ten years. But there's nothing i can do to shed the culture that i was born into nor would i want to,. I'm fundamentally American and brazilian but have lived so many other cultures

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