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Elliot Ackerman on Storytelling and the Cyclical Nature of History

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Importance of Storytelling

"If it could be easily summed up in 500 words, the whole mess probably wouldn't have happened," he says. "Reduction of complexity is, I think, sort of a synonym for storytelling." He adds that if you tell the wrong story and you metabolize events with an accurate narrative, 'you can really set yourself up to repeat mistakes'

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