The Banshees have been a Sharon. We naturally tell stories about everything we encounter, and our own lives are no exception. I'm not sure the storytelling mode is universal asuniversal as we like to think it is. Some people don't seem to tell stories. They don't have a storytelling mode about their own lives. And they do have stories. It's a story of redemption. It's rags to riches. It's all these bad things happen to me. And I'm a victim. That's an answer maybe than I really believe. If you asked me 10 years ago, I say, well, we're storytelling animals. The life well lived is about bringing those into
Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book Psych with EconTalk's Russ Roberts and what the field of psychology can teach us about human intelligence, consciousness, and unhelpful instincts. They also discuss just how far psychology is from a true understanding of the human mind, and why, according to Bloom, that might not be such a bad thing.