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What people so often forget is that the stories we tell ourselves create our nature just as much as they describe it.

When we decide how to act, many of our decisions comes from our culture, which is the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. We don't tell stories just to learn, but to become.

One wonders how those six Tongans would have acted had they had the misfortune of reading Lord of the Flies before they went sailing.



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