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The psychology of fiction with Jennifer Lynn Barnes

ReThinking

CHAPTER

I Can't Stop Daydreaming if I Try

The ability to generate fiction is actually part of what's made us successful as a species. And maybe the most important, distinctively human quality of all. I can't stop daydreaming if I try. It forms the basis for many of our decisions. You sit there and you're like, am I going to have another kid? Or am I Going To Get Married?

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