Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is your brain. You can feel the brain injury happening. It's an instant headache.
The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meanin… - Jonathan Gottschall
The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meanin…
- Jonathan Gottschall
Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist… - Jonathan Gottschall
Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist…
We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.' - Jonathan Gottschall
We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'
Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life. - Jonathan Gottschall
Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.
We are a species addicted to a stories. - Jonathan Gottschall
We are a species addicted to a stories.
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. - Jonathan Gottschall
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious s… - Jonathan Gottschall
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious s…
The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking… - Jonathan Gottschall
The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking…
If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story - Jonathan Gottschall
If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story
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