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A Story About Understanding
Your Stories
You walk into the room as a grown adult. Then something happens, and suddenly a much older story is speaking through you. This book is about noticing whose voice that is. And choosing what happens next.
By Simon Lamb with Christina Watt. Published by Berrett-Koehler.
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“It was always your hand on the pen. It was just writing in inherited ink.”
From the book
Cover reveal comingWhat this book is
The stories you inherited
are still running your meetings
Some of what you call your personality was handed to you. Stories passed down the family line. Lessons a twelve year old learned about what got praised and what got punished. That twelve year old is still in the room. Sometimes they chair the meeting.
This book gives you a way to notice, and a way to choose. Three habits. Press Pause. Zoom Out. Be in Choice. Built from 25 years of doing this work with real people in real rooms, from Microsoft to Shell to the kitchen table.
The old story doesn’t get erased. It gets honoured, reframed, and released from the driver’s seat. You get to write what comes next.