What does that say about me?

What does it mean if you fail a test, get rejected, or get fired? The answer is: nothing. Yet so many of us turn these bumps in life into stories about who we are and what we’re capable of. We are all meaning-making machines, constantly attaching significance to our experiences. But things only have the meaning we give them - so why not choose a useful one? That’s what we’re diving into in this episode.