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In his TEDIndia talk, Indian film director, actor, and producer Shekhar Kapur says, “We are the stories we tell ourselves.” In Ordinary Heroes, Scott Turow writes: “Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?” Perhaps the most famous reference to stories came from anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s definition of culture: that culture is made up of the “stories we tell ourselves about ourselves” that become woven into the connections we make,