Self is a story

"The self is the story of what's happened to that body over time." (Paul Broks)
So what you are saying is that we are essentially a narrative? (paraphrased Robert Krulwich)
"if you ask me about msyelf, i'll tell you a story." (Paul Broks)

Exactly.
This is from a Radiolab episode ("Who Am I?"), by the way, and Paul Broks wrote Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology which I can't remember if I attempted to read or not.