Fighting is really, really rewarding. I truly enjoyed it. I got feelings from fighting that were bigger than those I had experienced in almost any other realm of my life. It made me feel awake in a way that I had never been awake. Those kinds of big emotions and big experiences may come with a heavy price tag.
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
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
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 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.'
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…
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 a species addicted to a stories. - Jonathan Gottschall
We are a species addicted to a stories.
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