We Are The Stories We Tell Ourselves – And That’s Determined By Our Age

There’s a lot of research now that shows that in the teenage years wedevelop skills from what’s called autobiographical reasoning—which isthe ability to derive personal meaning from your past—and that’s reallythe key to narrative identity. When you start doing that in your teenageyears, then that kind of opens up a Pandora’s box that says “okay nowyou can actually create a story for your life that makes meaning aboutwho you were and where you’re go