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Robert Mckee on the Power of Storytelling

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

Is There a Dark Side to Beauty?

I like the long fellow line in a Psalm of life. He says, lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. The idea to me of the purpose of action and these sort of stories of heroes is hopefully, I think if done, obviously it should entertain. But the core purpose of the art, the human impulse that reason we do these things is to hopefully inspire people to be a little more heroic in their real life.

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