Cultural Tales
It is often said that we should learn from our mistakes. It stands to reason, then, that we should also learn from our successes. Both failure and success carry lessons, but those lessons rarely exist in isolation. They come alive when they are shared. When we tell our stories of what went wrong, what went right, and of what surprised us along the way, we create vessels for learning that extend far beyond ourselves. Stories allow experience to travel. They give us insight to be carried from one life to another, from one generation to the next. This is what makes storytelling so powerful and so essential. If we became better at telling our stories, and just as importantly, better at listening to them, entirely new possibilities would emerge. Human history, in all its brilliance and brutality, is built on story. Every act of compassion and every act of harm, every innovation and every collapse, has been shaped by the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, what we belong to, and what...
