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#31: The Science of Storytelling (why your life is a myth)

Not Your Average Jo

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The Secret Sauce to Story Telling

Having really good friends is like getting a window into multiple lives. I live my life, but having been with my friends for ten years or more, it's almost like i get to see what life is from another person's perspective. And that's so powerful. So theory of mind is like the secret sauce to story telling. It's the key to building unique characters and thinking about how the readers might perceive them. A good story teller re lives their own lived experience and captures it with enough detail to really put the human in it. When you're writing a story or telling a story, they put thehuman in the description that when someone reads it, they start building a picture

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