Ethics, Worldview & Influence

Update Your Self-Story

After being shot by the Taliban at age 15 for going to school, Malala Yousafzai could have become 'the girl who was shot'. Instead she chose to become 'the girl who fights for education'. She won the Nobel Peace Prize at 17, the youngest person ever to receive it. The difference was not what happened to her. It was the story she chose to tell about herself afterwards. In this lesson you will learn how the story you tell yourself about who you are shapes what you believe is possible, how to check whether the story is based on evidence or on old assumptions, how to rewrite the story with updated evidence, and how to draft a new identity statement that fits who you are now rather than who you used to be.