The act of telling our stories is transformative. Peale saw that by sharing our stories, we not only change ourselves, we change others. Its origins were humble the first issue of Guideposts was a 16-page booklet that featured World War I hero Eddie Rickenbacker on the cover. Two generations before the internet and social networking, the minister and grandfather of the self-help movement, Norman Vincent Peale, founded Guideposts as a place for what would eventually come to be known as user-generated content. Stories are the roadmaps of our lives, and we're hard-wired for telling them. We’ve been telling our stories since we could carve on cave walls, and probably longer. They help span the breach of solipsism to unify the human experience. I’ve long known that such stories are our best medium for forging connections with our fellow human beings. My job is to persuade and help people tell those stories.
I planned to give it up in a big way.įor all these years, I never told that story publicly, despite being the editor-in-chief of Guideposts, an interfaith magazine in which ordinary people tell their own stories of hope. One spring day 25 years ago, I found myself perched on the 21st floor windowsill of a Denmark hotel room, holding what I thought would be my last alcoholic drink. Editor's Note: Edward Grinnan is editor-in-chief of Guideposts magazine and author of " The Promise of Hope: How True Stories of Hope and Inspiration Saved My Life and How They Can Transform Yours."
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