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CHAPTER FOUR

Understanding Yourself

The Power of Narrative

  • What is your life story?
  • What impact do your success and failure narratives have on your decision making and behavior?
  • Do you understand why you behave as you do?

Once you have worked on assessing your skills and discerning your passions, you need to take an additional step before turning to strategies for developing your career and reaching your potential. This step involves coming to grips with your life story and understanding how it impacts who you are.

Understanding your own story might sound simple enough. Surely, you must be an expert on your own story. Or is it more complicated ...

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