Narrative Paradigm

My personal disposition towards human narratives has been this. [Never heard of Walter Fisher until today.] 

• Every human experience is a narrative, a story to be told later.
• You see / view, remember things selectively based on your conditioning, underlying belief system, and your prejudices. And when you recall them from memory you apply the same paradigm to weave a shape out of it. 
• You are perceived by how beautifully you are able to narrate this to others - what ingredients it has, and how impactful it is and can connect with the audience / listener.
• Different people looking at / experiencing the same experience will narrate it differently  - Rashomon Effect - each a Truth on its own. 

Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm

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• Everything we do can be laid out as a story.
• Humans are essentially story tellers. 
• What we do and how we think is swayed by history, biography, culture, character. 
• Rationality is determined by -- 
• a. Narrative probability: coherence of narrative
• b. Narrative fidelity: whether the story rings true with what we already know to be true.
• We continually choose stories that we keep company with. And these stories are constantly changing.
• Narratives are selective realities. We choose what we want to believe (influenced by ext factors).

Best examples of selective narrative paradigm as a selective reality is Media.