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Your Evolution May Feel Like a Revolution | Jonathan Adler on Who Else Is Holding Your Story
How much of your identity is actually yours to define?
Dr. Jonathan Adler has spent his career studying narrative identity: the evolving story we construct about who we are, where we came from, and who we might become.
His research suggests something both liberating and uncomfortable: we may be the narrator of our lives, but we are surrounded by co-narrators. Family, culture, relationships, institutions, and the people who know us all participate in holding our identities in place.
In this conversation, Jonathan and I explore what happens when the story you are living begins to change before…
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