Jen Sincero pp 141 – 142
The stories you tell yourself have a beneficial psychic payoff that you want. Change the story, change the payoff.
Also maybe it’s possible to examine the payoffs to identify hidden stories — because sometimes self does not reveal self to self upon direct inspection.
The interesting thing is the payoff is not superficially what you want but second order effects are what you want.
What stories am I telling myself?
This is when I wish I had the kindle version instead of the paper book. Most of the time paper is better. But when I want cut and paste . . . .