While reading Life’s Stories I went into it with an open mind because I wasn’t sure what to expect coming from the title. When one of the first things that caught my eye in this article was when Julie Beck says in the article “Life stories do not simply reflected personality. They are personality, or more accurately, they are important parts of personality, along with other parts, like dispositional traits,goals, and values.” When I read this I first fell in love with it because the way she put it is beautiful. I think it is a strong and powerful piece. I like how it says that people’s life stories don’t reflect their personalities because they don’t it’s the truth. People’s personalities are from them being them not from stories. Another thing that caught my eye in the article was when she said “Not only are there individual differences in how people think of their stories, there’s huge variation in the degree to which they engage in narrative storytelling in the first place.”. This caught my eye because everyone is different in one way or another, so when people are telling or thinking of stories they will never be the same from how another person says it because everyone does and thinks differently. A third thing in the article that caught my eye was “Stories don’t have to be really simple, like fairly-tale-type narratives,”McAdams says,”They can be complicated.” The reason I picked this one is because I agree that nothing can be simple in one way or another it will be complicated so by Julie saying that stories don’t have to be simple I think that is a great example for it.