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I understand the argument that our memories are "stories". It makes the most amount of sense when one factors in the third loop- the "interpersonal" loop between the stories my brain might come up with to explain observations versus the stories that someone else's brain might come up with to understand the same observations. Viewed from that perspective, it actually seems the way to get it wrong the least to equate our memories with stories that our brains tell.

On a more personal level, then, I would suggest that our memories are stories that are still being written. Some say that one is not the sum of one's experiences but rather it is what one (the I function?) does with those experiences that makes a person. Again, the theme of "engaging the 'I function'" in a student is repeated...encourage the students to know what they are conscious of and they will learn more...namely, they will be more exacting in the observations they make from their environment and be more conscious in their reactions to and explanations of them.