
Elliot Ackerman on Storytelling and the Cyclical Nature of History
The Daily Stoic
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Storytelling and Meaning-Making
✨Key takeaways:
- Storytelling helps humans process disorder and create meaning.
- Families use stories to define individual roles and process shared experiences, including traumas.
Storytelling is how we make meaning from disorder, shaping experiences into understandable narratives. Example: family storytelling. Families also tell stories, weaving in shared experiences, both positive and negative, including traumas, to define each member's role within the family unit.
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