Dennett’s life story unfolded through the pull-and-tug of competing desires and values. The emotional austerity of his professional life, versus the emotional excess of his private life. His turbulent romantic relationships represent a kind of “Mardi Gras” for the engineer. (The cultural script of Mardi Gras institutionalizes a time of carnival and feasting prior to the season of austerity of Lent.) How does this resonate with your own story? Are there some areas of life where you compensate for the limitations of your major script? If so, what does this tension reveal about your values? How
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