Jonathan Gottschall on the stories we tell ourselves
Dialogues with Richard Reeves
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The Power of Stories
I think one of the reasons I asked the question about the decision to kind of enter an exit narrative transportation is because it gets a little bit to how we should think about our own relationship to stories. And where I think you land is, you say towards the end of the book that if you're you're fearless, there's a story being told,. You just try to take a deep breath, you sort of try to depower the story in a sense. But another way to think about this is, I know I'm going to be told stories. So I choose the stories that shape me. And therefore I have a degree of control over the power of stories over me. Does that
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