But what happens when the stories we choose to live by lead us down dark and treacherous paths? The Netflix series “The Last Airbender" offers a compelling example of this question through the character of Admiral Zhao and his unrelenting pursuit of becoming a legend by slaying the Moon Spirit.
The stories we tell ourselves shape our lives in powerful ways. Our narratives about who we are and our place in the world dictate our life experiences; not necessarily what happens to us, but how we interpret events, our roles in what unfolded and what future may lie ahead for us. These stories are not merely thought up by our minds, but originate deep in our psyche...
Our perception of the world around us is filtered through our belief system which acts as a frame of reference in how we interpret events, phenomena, our own subjective experience and other people’s behaviour...