{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Curiosity Chronicle","title":"The Stories You Tell Yourself","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":456,"description":"When I was 13 years old, a single story changed the course of my life.\nBut to understand it, I need to take you back in time to a strange experiment from decades ago.\nNeuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga was studying patients who had their corpus callosum surgically severed. His experiments led him to hypothesize that the left hemisphere has a specialized system he called The Interpreter, whose responsibility is to find clear cause and effect.\nIts job is simple: To take scattered, seemingly random data and facts about the world in front of you and stitch them into a coherent story that feels true.\nThe problem is that we’d rather have a story that’s wrong than no story at all.\nFor me, The Interpreter began telling a story when I was young: I wasn’t very smart. My sister was the smart one. I had to be something else.\nAnd then, confirmation bias kicked in. The story determined what “counted” as evidence. Eventually, the story itself constrained my world.\nIn this piece, I talk about the stories we tell ourselves and the empowering truth that allowed me to confront my own:\nYou wrote the stories. Which means you can rewrite them.\nThe most important story in life is the one you tell yourself.\nMake sure it’s true.\n•••\n\nThis episode brought to you by:\nDeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. \nOrigin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.\nInnerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.\nLemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nO1oo__jWE5MpZsRfwEO_6q4py16kwv8WwJybce4FA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMxOTcwLzE2NzEx/MzU5MDctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}