Summary of Ian Morgan Cron's The Story of You

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was sheepish about asking anyone to be my sponsor, but there was this one guy who took me under his wing. I had been sober for only three months when I was invited to give a speech at a meeting. I was terrified of losing control in public.
#2 I told the story of me, explaining how I’d always felt like a troubled guest on the dark earth. I listed the long list of reasons for my tattered self-worth, including my father’s death from alcoholism.
#3 When I was a young boy, I was lost at sea with my family. When I began working on my issues in my twenties, the green shoots of a new story began to emerge. It took years of hard work and prayer to craft a new narrative, but today when I look in the mirror, I see a sober husband and father.
#4 The Enneagram is a system that helps people understand themselves better. It describes nine different types, and the underlying premise of each type’s self-defining stories is in direct opposition to the grace-filled Larger Story God wants us to enter into and enjoy.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Happiness
• Personal development

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669355779
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Ian Morgan Cron's The Story of You
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was sheepish about asking anyone to be my sponsor, but there was this one guy who took me under his wing. I had been sober for only three months when I was invited to give a speech at a meeting. I was terrified of losing control in public.

#2

I told the story of me, explaining how I’d always felt like a troubled guest on the dark earth. I listed the long list of reasons for my tattered self-worth, including my father’s death from alcoholism.

#3

When I was a young boy, I was lost at sea with my family. When I began working on my issues in my twenties, the green shoots of a new story began to emerge. It took years of hard work and prayer to craft a new narrative, but today when I look in the mirror, I see a sober husband and father.

#4

The Enneagram is a system that helps people understand themselves better. It describes nine different types, and the underlying premise of each type’s self-defining stories is in direct opposition to the grace-filled Larger Story God wants us to enter into and enjoy.

#5

We are incurable storytellers. We tell hard luck stories, tall stories, short stories, cock-and-bull stories, sob stories, rags-to-riches stories, shaggy-dog stories, and fish stories.

#6

The old stories we tell ourselves about our Enneagram type are myths that are useful in childhood, but they make a mess of our lives when we continue to believe them uncritically in adulthood. We can rewrite the story of our type in adulthood.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The secret to changing your life is to pick a new story. Most of us are reading off old scripts, written by others and handed down to us, and we don’t realize that we have the ability to write our own story.

#2

We can thank our old stories for giving us a way to ascribe meaning to experiences and form a coherent sense of self, but we should be aware that they are not useful or happy anymore. We should say thank you to them and then toss them into the donate pile.

#3

If we refuse to change our childhood stories, we end up stuck. We want to change, but we don’t know how. We’re all fiercely loyal to our broken narratives because who would we be without them.