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The emotional load sharing and efficiency of the “group mind” leaves each individual’s prefrontal cortex with a lot less work to do than it would have on its own.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
initial enthusiasm, goals achieved, things falling apart, catastrophe faced and victory snatched from the jaws of defeat.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
In his memoir Tough Shit, filmmaker Kevin Smith writes that anytime a person is speaking to a group of people, in any context, the speaker has a duty and an obligation to be entertaining.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Most events happen without you having a say in the matter. You can either enjoy and love whatever happens, or you get dragged along anyway.
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
We live what our protagonists live.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
‘A life without temporal boundaries,’ writes the philosopher Samuel Scheffler, ‘would be no more a life than a circle without a circumference would be a circle.’
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
It’s a tension that arises from our natural urge to reconcile opposites.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
realized: I don’t think I’m cut out to support a male artist. And I’m certainly not cut out to have a family with one.