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From the heroic to the everyday: the role of little stories in medical education.Doctors are often presented as mythic, all-knowing heroes.Could seeking to be a superstar contribute to experiencing shame, burnout and distress in medical training?This conceptual paper proposes that educators tell little stories of practice in formal and informal situations-to promote learning and also to challenge the dominant heroic myths of medicine.By revealing tales of the mundane and the imperfectlittle failures in practice or stories where the doctor is not the protagonist or experiences which have no neat endingeducators and learners alike may learn to celebrate difference.