In an actionable talk, psychotherapist and advice columnist Lori Gottlieb shows how to break free from the stories you've been telling yourself by becoming your own editor and rewriting your narrative from a different point of view.

(Courtesy: TED.com) Imagine you're a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates – but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose? In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist