177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Art of Story Am
The myth of the hero with the thousand faces is based on an idea that we have these eternal archetypes in our head. The human brain evolved to be able to be flexible in the stories that it tells, not to have archetypes. And humans are constantly innovating narrative. These relentlessly recycled narratives just trap us in the same loops over and over again. It's kind of like a self fulfilling prophecy, where you keep telling the same story. If you tell yourself a negative narrative about your life, everything fits into this negative Narrative which is very accurate.
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