This document discusses how stories shape our lives and influence our behaviors and choices. It suggests identifying and subverting destructive stories that limit us, such as "we've always done it this way" and stories of fatalism. The document advocates avoiding abstract values and instead focusing on how to transform stories in a way that challenges tyrannical stories through patience and by considering how challenges are made as well as what is challenged. The overall message is that examining and changing the stories we tell ourselves can make the odds more in our favor.

1. MAKING THE ODDS EVER IN YOUR FAVOR
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2. A STORY
ABOUT A
STORY
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3. SOME STORIES KILL Jeffrey Sykes
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4. STORIES LEAD TO PRACTICES
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5. SUBVERT DESTRUCTIVE
STORIES
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6. “WE’VE ALWAYS DONE
IT THIS WAY.”
THE BIGGEST LIE?
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7. NOT ALL STORIES SUCK
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9. AVOID ABSTRACT VALUES
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10. I can only answer the
question, “What am I to do?”
if I can answer the prior
question “Of what story or
stories do I find myself a
part?” - Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
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11. TYRANNICAL STORIES
MUST GO
BUH-BYE
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12. TYRANNY OF THE…
IMMEDIATE
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13. TYRANNY OF THE…
EXCEPTION
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14. TYRANNY OF THE…
EXCEPTIONAL
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15. TYRANNY OF THE…
ADVERSARY
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16. TYRANNY OF …
FATALISM
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17. YOU MAY BE THE
ONLY CHARACTER IN
THE STORY CAPABLE OF
CHANGE
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18. HOW YOU CHALLENGE
IS AS IMPORTANT AS
WHAT YOU CHALLENGE
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19. PATIENCE--
CHANGING THE STORIES
WE TELL TAKES TIME
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20. THANK YOU
THE ODDS WILL NEVER BE
IN YOUR FAVOR UNTIL
YOU REEXAMINE THE
STORIES THAT SHAPE YOU.
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