@theflintmind: This is the single most load-bearing idea in this book. People treat their past as a fixed data set. It’s not. It’s a story you keep entertaining from a narrator that you have never audited. Two people can survive the same failure and walk out with two different identities. One thinks they’re a failure. The other now believes they know what not to do. The gap isn’t the event, it’s an actually the editing processes not just the observation. You choose. Chapter 9 in The Flint Mind helps re-write this narrative. For those who do