Or, at least these are some stories we all like to tell ourselves.

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When violence suddenly ruptures the course of our lives, we tend to tell ourselves stories in order to make it more explicable.

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We just have to tell ourselves that we have done a lot of the hard work but now is the time to pull out all the stops.

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Though it feels easier and safer in the short run to place the blame on unreasonable or incompetent co-workers, it is simply not a useful story to tell ourselves.

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It seems we are inclined, when we have been set a stretch goal that we just did not reach, to tell ourselves that we sort of did, and really do deserve the reward.

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The job of an interest rate is to tell us the truth about ourselves.

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To see into the future and tell us what we're going to like before we've realized it ourselves?

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We taught ourselves through writing scripts, discovering ideas and experimenting with how to tell these stories.

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