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Dan McAdams found that how we tell our stories matters. Those who tell redemption stories, where we go from a low to a high, turning our suffering into something positive, score higher on measures of well-being than those who tell “feel good” stories, where everything is generally pretty good. The old adage that the bad makes the good better holds true. But in further research by psychologist Jack Bauer, it wasn’t the sequence that mattered the most. It was the themes in those stories.
