"Your backstory determines your future" - Antano Solar

New age philosophy says do not think about the past. Antano says that would eliminate ninety percent of the talent you have. The past is not a burden. It is a rich archive. The question is not whether you revisit it. It is what meaning you assign to it when you do. Your backstory is not what happened to you. It is the meaning you gave to what happened. That meaning is malleable. Renegotiated with greater experience and maturity, the same set of facts generates an entirely different future. This is not positive thinking. It is precision reinterpretation.