their shared reality – their model of the external world: what happened in the past and why; what’s right, what’s wrong and what needs changing.

I’ve always had an unwavering belief that everything is made of stories: that we can break down our world into stories we tell ourselves and each other. For meaning, for belonging, for purpose, for faith. In stories, we find something to hold onto. Stories are what bind and make us. How we form relationships, yes, but also the essence of our

the invention of storytelling enabled individual human brains to merge into a shared reality. Welcome to the story-world.