I've been thinking about that a lot lately. We tell stories about ourselves and call it our identity. Often, we believe so strongly in our identities that we'v

I've been thinking about that a lot lately. We tell stories about ourselves and call it our identity. Often, we believe so strongly in our identities that we've killed for them or have been killed for them. One person can have one identity where they're a failure, then through therapy, they change their story and become happier. Same events, different story. There's also the cultural story: we descended from these people, we share an intellectual lineage with those people, these are the past events that are important, and this is what they reveal about us, etc.