{"id":3271,"date":"2020-09-26T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:47:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:47:24","slug":"story-life-as-a-sinus-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/26\/3271\/","title":{"rendered":"Life as a Sinus Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A life is described as happy or otherwise not primarily because of the actual events which occur during it, but because of the way they are arranged in the individual\u2019s memory. Many life stories stop at an unhappy ending rather than continuing to the subsequent happy ending. In order to achieve a \u201chappy\u201d biography, the stories told by a person about his or her life must end with events which were experienced as positive, and also start with such events if possible. Like the following stories, \u201cLife as a Sinus Curve\u201d encourages the listener to structure biographical stories in such a way that they end with positive experiences of this kind. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we imagine that life\u2019s ups and downs resemble a\nsinus curve, we can draw this curve in two different ways. We can start the\ncurve at its highest point, trace it down through its lowest point and then\nreturn to its highest point \u2013 or we can do the opposite, and draw the curve from\nits lowest point, through its highest point and back to its lowest point. In\nmathematical terms, it is exactly the same curve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A life is described as happy or otherwise not primarily because of the actual events which occur during it, but because of the way they are arranged in the individual\u2019s memory. Many life stories stop at an unhappy ending rather … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}