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... See moreStories are tribal propaganda. They control their group, manipulating its members into behaving in ways that benefit it. And it works. A recent study of eighteen hunter-gatherer tribes found almost eighty per cent of their stories contained lessons in how they should behave in their dealings with other people. The groups with the greater proportion
No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
People typically declared that they had around thirteen ‘real’ friends no matter how many Facebook friends they had
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Sally Mallam • The Science of Storytelling
What all those who came to know Amos eventually realized was that the man had a preternatural gift for doing only precisely what he wanted to do.
Michael Lewis • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Every utterance reveals something of the melting pot of desire, culture, background, worldview, status, social codes, gender, subconscious fears and upbringing – the crucible from whence they came.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
‘If we are pushed far enough, pressured beyond our breaking point, our self-preservation system takes over and we are capable of terrible villainy.’
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Our brains are programmed to connect with other brains and turn reality into a shared narrative.