Heroes and Villains of Our Own Lives

What Ted Lasso is doing for toxic masculinity and storytelling

"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

~ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Story telling is a mechanism for generating empathy. By telling the stories of others we learn how to see the world in a way that is different. In childhood the stories are uncomplicated. There are heroes and villains. Good overcomes evil.

However, hum…