How Telling Stories Makes Us Human
Stories and folktales are what bind us together as a community. They tell us who we are and why we have obligations towards each other.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
It’s testament to the powers of the storytelling brain that many psychologists argue that human language evolved in the first place in order to tell tales about each other.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Storytelling is a primal instinct (people have been telling stories much, much longer than they’ve been reading or writing about them)
Brian Norgard • The Pomp Podcast on Apple Podcasts
According to neuroscience studies, stories have a remarkable ability to change our thinking, for example by demonstrating how our minds literally sync with each other as we hear a story.
Nathan Furr • The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown
every human being is a storyteller, that stories are how we seek to understand the meaning of our lives