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title: "Which Story Are You Telling?"
url: https://thecancerus.com/which-story-are-you-telling/
date: 2013-05-05
modified: 2025-04-05
author: "ican"
description: "Whenever we are talking, we are telling stories from our life. These stories invariably fall into one of the two types"
categories:
  - "entrepreneurial"
word_count: 75
---

# Which Story Are You Telling?

Every time we speak, we’re telling stories about our lives.

These stories almost always fall into one of the following types:

- I could *not do* X because of these Y problems, or
- I *did* something *despite* these Y problems coming my way.

The first casts you as the victim of your story; the second lets you emerge as the hero.

I choose to listen to and tell the hero’s story. Which one will you choose?