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People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different fo
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different fo
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different f
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
every human being is a storyteller, that stories are how we seek to understand the meaning of our lives
Steve Almond Tells Us
We can create stories to tell for our own purposes, but we are also created by stories and told by them. We forget sometimes that stories have realities and purposes of their own.
Jonathan Rowson • Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
