The stories we tell

Hello and welcome to week eleven of my Advent Calendar of Change; 12 bite-sized exercises from Swim Jump Fly: A Guide to Changing Your Life. As we’re nearing the end of this blog (and this year), I thought we might reflect on storytelling, particularly the stories we tell ourselves.

Stories are everywhere. On our TVs, in the songs we listen to and in our newsfeeds. In 1997 Robert McKee wrote about stories in his book Story…