{"id":7729,"date":"2019-03-07T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7729"},"modified":"2019-03-07T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T04:00:50","slug":"making-up-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7729","title":{"rendered":"Making Up Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Brown-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Brown-4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Brown-4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. It&#8217;s how we are wired. Meaning making is in our biology, and when we&#8217;re in struggle, our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense of what&#8217;s happening and gives our brain information on how best to self-protect. And it happens a hundred times a day at work. Our organizations are littered with stories that people make up because they don&#8217;t have access to information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bren\u00c3\u00a9 Brown, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/dare_to_lead.html\"><em>Dare to Lead<\/em><\/a>, p. 258<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, January 26, 2016<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. It&#8217;s how we are wired. Meaning making is in our biology, and when we&#8217;re in struggle, our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense of what&#8217;s happening and gives our brain information on how best to self-protect. And it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","category-trials","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}