The function of a narrative is to control your surprisability. If you're always surprised or never surprised, you have a broken narrative
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Both states are marked by narrative certainty: surprisability locked at one extreme of 0% (null narrative) or 100% (explains-everything)
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The mark of having achieved greater control over surprisability is not claims of "special" experiences, but greater emotional sensitivity
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Greater verbal precision = picking right word better than others. Emotional sensitivity = picking what to feel more precisely than others
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This is a trainable. Most people think caring/not-caring is something they have no control over. Just a behavioral precondition. Not true.
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