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How To Mythologize Your Life to Survive and Thrive in The AI Age

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You’ll end up miserable if you don’t start treating your life like a story.

You’ll end up miserable if you don’t start treating your life like a story. Human life has always been overwhelming and confusing. Throughout history, humans have used myths as psychological structures to make sense of their internal and external world. Up until a few hundred years ago, those myths were collective. Changes in the structure of human society, mostly influenced by the Enlightenment period and the Industrial Revolution, led to the weakening and disappearance of collective myths. Some of the greatest minds of the last 200 years talked about how having a personal myth is…

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