Abstract: In the various example embodiments disclosed herein, a best next action is recommended by a user's model by establishing from user inputs a personally relevant narrative context; establishing a narrative context using a Story Object Hierarchy; constructing values for user attributes and goals based on the Story Object Hierarchy; determining from the goals a user's envisioned story; optimizing actions to advance the user towards the user's envisioned story; optimizing communication of the optimized actions to reflect the constituents of the Story Object Hierarchy most likely to advance the user towards user's envisioned story; receiving new user input after communicating the optimized actions to the user; evaluating user progress towards the user's envisioned story; and recommending for the user a best next action for their personally relevant narrative context.