 ‘Calculated’ suggests a programme rationally determined.These ‘conversations’ and ‘stories’ are also to construct the youthful self in a particular way, by regulating ‘the affections’ or emotional self and forming ‘the mind’ or rational and moral self ‘to truth and goodness’—understood in terms of professional middle-class culture.As Richardson explains, in "Original Stories" adulthood is defined by the ability to discipline oneself by "constructing moral tales" out of one's life.