Learning Multiple Languages: There is No One Narrative
Your other outcomes have a story of their own
We are conditioned to believe that our life is a narrative, as are the people’s lives around us. We even apply this principle to our goals, current events, and government policy.
It’s much easier to believe a single narrative is driving circumstances rather than many competing narratives working in parallel.
We’ve become so addicted to this single story philosophy, that it impedes our ability to see other narratives in parallel.
The scary part is we revise our personal history to best fit our current circumstances.
When telling a story, we have the power to omit events, and either increase or decrease our roles in them. If we made a huge mistake, we’ll likely tell a version of the story that minimizes our involvement. Or if the story was a huge triumph, we’ll increase our perceived role when telling the story.
No matter how vulnerable you are, you can feel the gears turning in your brain when thinking about how to tell a story and your role in it.
Each version of the story would be accurate, since including and omitting events is not overtly deceptive. When telling a story, you wouldn’t share the colors of the houses you…
