He views intelligence as the ability to tell the right story at the right time which will shed new light on a situation. Perhaps indigenous people know something that we don't know. Jean Houston tells of asking an Aborigine woman how people differ from animals. We are our stories. They literally organize our memory and determine our behavior.
Stories also feed our imagination and in doing so, they form the fabric of our soul.
This book is about job loss and resilience, but its intent is to teach through the use of stories. In the first section I will address what happens when old stories, such as our notion of job security or the American Dream, die and how we must infuse these cultural myths with new life. The second section draws from the stories of professionals who involuntarily lost their job and bounced back, feeling better off than they were before. It begins with two in-depth stories that illustrate many common themes that emerged in my research. The remaining chapters in this section explain how these resilient people felt and what they did after losing their job.