The Narrative, The Genre And The Quality Of The Work

Too many seem too focused on driving a narrative that makes no sense to anybody else.

Photo by Jon Tyson

One can’t deny the importance that narrative has in our lives. We are the stories we tell ourselves. This isn’t just something that sounds good, this is a powerful weapon: armed with the right narrative, we may be nigh on unstoppable. Conversely, the best talents may prove useless if matched with the wrong narrative.

Changing the narrative is something extraordinary. Our narrative isn’t something we are shown how to craft. Parenting tends to give children a narrative but not teach them how to develop their own. School is even worse: it doesn’t even care about anybody’s narrative, only that of the schooling system. Therefore, our narrative is something we build haphazardly, picking up bits here and there, defined by certain moments and certain people we bumped into. I don’t think most of us have ever wondered about our narrative. And yet, we all have one, a solid foundation, a stack of all the things that explain who we are and who we want to be. Changing the narrative is changing ourselves: powerful and painful in equal measure.

At micro level, it is also useful to control the narrative of our actions. Everything we do has a narrative because everything that…