Experiences affect us emotionally.
Experiences teach us and we learn from experiences.
Memory is the key to understanding experiences.
Experiences change our behaviour.
We do not always react rationally to experiences - this causes the paradoxes, anomalies and inconsistencies in our behaviour.
Experiences can have a positive effect.
Experiences can have a negative effect
Shared experiences connect people and create a sense of belonging and affinity.
Experiences lead to new behaviours.
A person's context and prior experiences shape how they perceive the world.
Our experiences shape the way we see other people.
People respond more strongly with emotion than logic to many human experiences.
Storytelling is a particularly human way of communicating our experiences and making meaning of our life.
Stories bring meaning to our lives and explain our existence and purpose.
We all have a seemingly innate need for narratives to make sense of our lives.
Narratives can either confirm our world view or alter our world depending on the experiences they convey.