 We are literally neurologically wired to understand the world through stories. Which is why stories are sticky. Stories are, in my view, utterly essential to the work of human connection and social transformation. I cannot interact with the world without first engaging with my history. I grew up in a brethren community rural New Zealand. That's me with my prized lamb. But that part of my story leads me into the point at my story in which my belief in the clarity of what was right and what was wrong began to break down. This is me having run away from my life. No, walked away from my life. And I just kept walking. I took a flight to South Africa. I landed in Johannesburg, took another flight to Cape Town, and I started walking and I walked for 11 months. And I walked through East Africa and I walked through the Middle East. And on that long walk, I learned that there was a world out there. And if you know that about me, there's a whole lot of other things about the way that I moved through the world in the sense that I make of the world that you might understand in a different way.