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Inventions, stories, and ideas that don't matter (with Pablos Holman)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Stories in Human Psychology

People seem to be powered almost exclusively by stories. And it turns out one of the things that makes a story sell better is if it's a scary story. We're at this stage where we're so busy consuming stories about what could go wrong, he says. "I think I gravely underestimated how important stories are to human psychology"

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