 Recognizing where a story comes from, what the origin story of that story is, can be very interesting, but most of the time it doesn't change anything at all, just because you do a lot of work at a lot of rumination and chatteling, and you find out why you're afraid of dogs. You suddenly have this epiphany, it's like, oh yeah, when I was five years old, I got bitten by the neighbor's dog, that's why I'm so afraid of dogs. Finally, I found it out. I know what the reason is, you're still afraid of dogs. It still requires the work that needs to be put in, moving on from here and out on the new pages in the life story, on the blank pages, saying, no, you know what, my significant other has a dog. It's very important for me to spend quality time with that person, and for that I need to get over my fear with dogs, and it's going to look like this and this and this. I'm going to pet the dog, I'm going to get close to the dog, maybe I walk the dog by myself, but it starts with changing the behavior that we bring out into the world. It's such an important point that oftentimes it doesn't require you to think through what is the behavior change, it just feels good in the moment to recognize the pattern, aha, this is why I'm afraid of dogs. But what's going to happen tomorrow? What's going to happen the day after? You are faced with a choice point, a decision to be made how your future behavior is going to go once you recognize that self story. So super helpful to understand past behaviors and the stories that are guiding our lives that are maybe creating goals for us, maybe steering us in certain directions around past experiences, but really important to recognize that there's a lot of stories still to be written. There's a blank page in front of you, and that story is going to be written on future behaviors, not future thoughts, future emotions, or what you would think you would do in that scenario, and rationalizing and day dreaming about what could have been or what could be in the future, but it really comes down to what is that step you're taking with your behavior to influence the future, to break that pattern, to write that story.