> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.gilespcroft.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The story box - URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/the-story-box/ - Published: 2025-02-11T07:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-25T17:01:45.000Z - Description: Minds just don't know that they're not really that clever. 🤓 - Author: Giles P Croft - Tags: Psychology, Presence, Metaphor, MECHANICS, Real stories, Sharing, #1:1 CTA I saw this image and it just about sums it up. 😂 It’s so important to see that when it’s predicting the future, the mind ONLY has [the past to go on](https://www.gilespcroft.com/the-future-is-the-past/) (i.e. what it’s already collected). It’s a teeny-tiny repository of information, in the big scheme of things. It’s completely innocent. It just doesn’t know anything of life. It can’t imagine what it doesn’t know and has never experienced. Even if it tries to think ‘outside of the box’, it will still be using old data to try and do that. It’s just not that clever. --- A personal example: before I get on a call with a client. It gets into rehearsing. It will sometimes start getting worried. It will start creating stories, like *“I’ll have nothing to say”* or *“I’m just going to be repeating myself.”* Ditto written articles, when the mind’s projecting into the future. Ditto these Daily Reminders! It doesn’t know that it’s not involved in generating FRESH NEW content, there in the moment. It’s only the fact that it *thinks* it does (’cos it’s got no idea) that’s freaking you out. --- Does this mean you just ‘wing it’ and never prepare for anything? Well, to a degree, we all are, all the time, really. We don’t know what’s going to happen, from one moment to the next. But in terms of conversations—human interactions; especially with a client—I know that preparation & agendas is a complete no no. Because I’m not there to share factual information or teach anything. I’m there to [be present](https://www.gilespcroft.com/necessary-ingredients-for-change/#:~:text=I'll%20check%20in%20with%20myself%20before%20I%20start%20any%20session) and let life decide what’s best. --- Of course we can’t be separate from the left brain story-box either, so whatever happens is always going to come *through* that repository—Etymology: *re- ponere* (Lat.) *“to put back”*—of experience and memory and conditioning, whether we like it or not. But it’s helpful to see that new material isn’t coming *from* the story-box. A subtle distinction for sure, but one that makes all the difference, allowing us to take the mind’s insecurities—as it worries about jobs it doesn’t even have to do!!—less seriously, and, in doing so, reconnect to the *true* source of fresh new ideas and solutions. 💟 Giles GET YOUR OWN CHANGES [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2026/01/GPC-mugshot-at-desk_800px.jpg)](https://www.gilespcroft.com/individuals) Know that it's time for significant life change? Had enough of reading and now ready to sort the problem out once and for all, with 1:1 support? I help you get the change you need, in a way that's just right for you. [Apply now ](https://www.gilespcroft.com/individuals) ### Related [Going fishingA powerful visual metaphor for the mind’s relationship to past, present and future 🕰️![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/icon/DR_Lockup-Black-3-485.png)The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/thumbnail/2026-01-26-Going-fishing-2.JPG)](https://www.gilespcroft.com/going-fishing/)