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“The world we experience as ‘out there’ is actually a reconstruction of reality that is built inside our heads. It’s an act of creation by the storytelling brain.”

― Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

Pentagon leaders are considering using chapters of Kirk’s political organization, Turning Point USA, at schools across the U.S. as military recruitment centers

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”

― Anne Bogart

In combination with considerably slower rates of reading and diminished reading comprehension, curtailed homework time means that an English teacher might not be able to assign more than 10 to 15 pages of relatively easy prose per class meeting, a rate so excruciatingly slow, it diminishes one’s ability to actually grasp a novel’s meaning and... See more

She wanted to see where we were going, just as much as I did, only, we were not going to the same place. We valued different things.

Humans have evolved the capacity to create and believe in stories. Narratives can also transcend the “here and now” by introducing individuals to situations beyond their everyday experience, which may increase empathy and perspective-taking towards others, including strangers.