I think that the author has a really good point when she talks about the dangers of self narrative thinking. I am personally a sucker for siding with the side that less people agree with because I personally believe that humanities greatest threat is becoming an echo chamber of ideas where the societal norm of ideas is basically forced upon everyone (especially now that we are all connected with social media) but I actually really like this non conformist idea more than I usually do. I personally can look back and see several moments where my decision making was heavily influenced by my perceived self narrative. Two big ones that I remember, one that I let my self narrative win and one that I didn’t were when I was miserable at a private middle school I used to attend because a lot of my friends left. I almost also left that school but I thought that my personal narrative would be tainted by not sticking with my old school until graduation. A similar thing happened my senior year of high school when I decided I didn’t really like playing school basketball anymore. Basketball had been really important to me for a long time so it was hard for me to decide to stop and was even harder because it had always been expected of me by myself and my loved ones that my self narrative would include me playing basketball throughout high school. I am happy that I stopped playing though. I hope I can continue avoiding making the wrong decisions because of self narrative.
