What Makes a Great Story?

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What makes a great story? Like, why is shakespeare and jane ton and dostyovskydnd, some of these classic novelists, hemming way and so on. Andanwe not what we at about those stories. A, i i directally mean that in the sense that most people wi, they say, great question, than they have the answer to it. But who does? No. What i will say about it is, you know, that the book is mainly focused, the story paradox,. About 20 years of research, a revealing the special, sort of unique power of story telling as a form of messaging and a form of persuasive messaging.

Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may be the thing that destroys it.

In The Story Paradox, Gottschall explores how a broad consortium of psychologists, communications specialists, neuroscientists, and literary quants are using the scientific method to study how stories affect our brains.

In this conversation based on his new book, Gottschall reveals why our biggest asset has become our greatest threat, and what, if anything, can be done. It is a call to stop asking, “How we can change the world through stories?” and start asking, “How can we save the world from stories?”