What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who's got courage, who's dead game in a fight. Most guys don't come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night.
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…
- Jonathan Gottschall
We are a species addicted to a stories. - Jonathan Gottschall
We are a species addicted to a stories.
What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter … - Jonathan Gottschall
What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter …
The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is just as important, is… - Jonathan Gottschall
The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is just as important, is…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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