9. Stories Welcome back to another episode in the mindfulness for everyday life workshop. This episode is all about stories. When we talk about mindfulness, especially trying to be more mindful in our everyday lives. It's incredibly useful to know that we are meaning making machines as humans we've evolved. And in large part to our ability to collectively tell and believe stories, stories are an important part of what makes our society work. [00:00:44] The way that it works, the stories are good, but we also pay the price for having stories. So consider this, you have a group of people. And we come up with a story that this piece of paper is worth something we all collectively believe the story. And since we all collectively believe the story, we are now able to transact and have commerce. [00:01:08] You give me this piece of paper and I'll give you this thing that you want, because I know that the paper is worth something. And that's exactly how our financial systems work tod...