
EP 75: Clare Murphy on Story and Meaning
The Emergency Mind Podcast
What Are Stories?
The brain gets switched on in a way that's so incredible. I call it entering the mythic self. They can feel the story happening with their bodies. So we're time traveling, you're feeling it in your body,. Your empathy or emotions are triggered. You care for someone you've never met and you emotionally wrestleWhatever dilemmas in the story you wrestle with that your brain wants to figure out. All of that can happen in under two minutes. And you also forget the room you're inYour worries all of that stuff that we live with every day disappears while you're dealing with a story. That's why we need it. It could do almost anything in the world depending
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