Imagine Your Life As Literal Fiction - How Would You Narrate It

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Kevin Miller

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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I’m thinking of a movie, Stranger Than Fiction. It came out in 2006 starring Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, and Queen Latifah. In it, Will Ferrell plays a mentally unstable IRS auditor who starts hearing an author's voice in his head and as she writes this fictional story, he is the main character and the events literally happen in his life. So he hears her speak of events, such as something happening that causes his death. And he’s left talking back, saying, “Hey! Stop doing that! I’m not ok with that story!” I feel it’s an incredible depiction that I realize is actually going on in my life, and I’m not taking it seriously. In the last episode I talked with Marianne Renner, whose new book is Self-Talk: 10 Stories You Tell Yourself That Hold You Back…And How to Overcome Them. This is my muse. I invite you to think through this with me…the idea that today you are going along listening to a fairly fictional depiction of your life that if you’re not aware of, you’ll just agree with. Also, if you’ll go to mariannerenner.com/selftalk, you can get the first three chapters of Marianne’s book absolutely free. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Join millions of Americans reaching their financial goals—starting at just $3/month! Get $25 towards your first stock purchase at get.stash.com/DRIVE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller, and in this episode, we're going to imagine your life as literal fiction.
0:07.6	And if it was, how would you narrate it? So I'm thinking of a movie. It was called Stranger Than
0:14.4	Fiction. It came out in 2006, stars Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, and Queen Latifah. Well, in it, Will Ferrell
0:24.0	plays a mentally unstable IRS auditor named Harold, who starts hearing an author's voice in his head.
0:32.6	And as she writes his fictional story, he's the main character he realizes, and the events are
0:37.2	actually happening in his life.
0:38.4	So if he hears her speak of certain events,
0:42.2	like something's gonna cause his death,
0:44.0	he's left yelling, hey, stop doing that,
0:47.0	stop telling that story.
0:48.0	I don't wanna die.
0:48.8	I don't want that to happen.
0:51.0	Well, I really like the movie.
0:53.6	I've probably seen it two or three times. And as I was thinking
0:56.5	about it today, I think I'm going to watch it tonight. I feel it's an incredible depiction because I think
1:01.5	that's what's actually going on in my life in a lot of ways. And I'm not taking it seriously.
1:08.4	So my previous episode, I talked with Marianne Renner, whose new book is called
1:13.6	Self-Talk, 10 stories you tell yourself that hold you back and how to overcome them. Well,
1:19.9	that discussion, that topic, that's my muse here. So I invite you to think through this concept
1:26.2	with me, the idea that today you're going along,
1:30.0	listening to this fairly fictional depiction of your life that if you're not aware of,
1:34.1	you're just going to agree with.
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