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Narrative Resonance™
Why some stories about a life produce movement and others only produce a better-organised stuckness.
11 chapters · 65,255 words · Narrated · Still being written
People are reliably able to construct a coherent account of their own difficulty that changes nothing. The account is accurate, it is well-told, and it has become the thing being maintained. Narrative work that does not notice this simply produces a more polished version of the same position.
This volume is about the difference between a story that holds a person and one that moves them: the markers of a live narrative, the specific ways a story goes inert, and the interventions that reopen one without demanding the person abandon what they know to be true.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.