Life’s Stories

How you arrange the plot points of your life into a narrative can shape who you are—and is a fundamental part of being human. In telling the story of how you became who you are, and of who you’re on your way to becoming, the story itself becomes a part of who...

What Your ‘Life Story’ Really Says About You

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion famously wrote in “The White Album.” In many ways, Didion was right: Stories may not seem like a basic survival need, but our brains naturally tell stories as a way to give structure and meaning to our lives....