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Leaders experiencing self-doubt can flip their limiting beliefs and increase their resilience by rewriting their "inner narrative", an executive coach says.

According to Mark Jones, who is also a podcast host and former journalist, storytelling can help leaders to silence their inner critic, avoid burnout, and thrive in the midst of uncertainty.

Narrative psychologists believe everyone has a "narrative identity" – a "personalised, internalised evolving story about [their] lives that wraps together the past, present and future" – whether they realise it or not, Jones says in his new book, The Story Code.

However, people also tend to have an inner critic that shrinks their potential, telling them what they can and can't do, often without proof...