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Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals

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The Success Game Is Not a Success Game

The way we judge the reality is through, through the story within which we're looking at reality. The same applies to status, right? So let's say i can have a story of living ina village in africa where, you know, my greatest dream is to have a donkey cart. And one person looks at it as a fortune, as the happiest thing that happened to them. That to meis the simplestics is the simplestic idea. Butbis am again referring to the trappersan because i's notr itsit's bad, it doesn't work. I mean, enron was a disaster. They weren't run ing their company just as they wer supposed

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