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Our stories can take many forms.Maybe you've told yourself you're "just not a risk-taker," and believed it completely, even though you can't remember deciding that about yourself.Maybe you've watched yourself sabotage something good right when it started working, and had no real explanation for why.Perhaps you've caught yourself defending a version of your life you don't even like, just because it's the version you know.Or maybe you've said "that's just who I am" about something you've never once questioned.Most people think these are facts about themselves. What they actually are is a story, one your brain started writing a long time ago and never stopped narrating.Your brain is wired to think in story. It's been doing this since childhood, automatically, without asking your permission, building a narrative about who you are, what you deserve, and what's possible for you. That story has been shaping every decision you've made and every result you've gotten, and until you can see it, it just runs the show.Storytellers is about what happens when you finally see the story you've been living, and take over as the one writing it.Rooted in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and decades of work in transformational seminars, Mark gives you a clear, practical framework for identifying the story you've been living, understanding why it feels like fact instead of fiction, and rewriting it with yourself as the author instead of just the main character.You'll learn why your brain builds stories automatically, and how that same wiring can work for you or against you. You'll recognize the three roles almost everyone unconsciously plays, and which one has been running your life without asking. You'll understand why you've defended a painful story even when part of you knew it wasn't working, and how to finally separate the facts of what happened from the meaning you assigned to them. You'll meet the three tools every author needs, the detective, the architect, and the casting director, to build the story you actually want to live. You'll see why the people closest to you might be the biggest obstacle to your new story, and exactly what to do about that.The story gets written either way. The only question is who's holding the pen. Read more
