What's the Role of Story in Your Life?

I'm a big, you all know a Harari fan and in his book, Sapiens, he talks about that's one of the primary things that sets humans apart is that we can create stories. I start the book with the chapter heading of the world as story. We are stories beginning with the very first story, which is me. As you develop from the youngest baby all the way through the rest of your life, you're doing it through the lens of your story. You are the hero. Everybody else is some kind of other character in that story. And so what I was trying to do in this book,. besides just giving writers the techniques for writing a great genre story of