Episode 8 – Why We Tell Stories

Fiction as Life-Simulation.


Brain patterns while we are immersed in a story.


Storytelling as an evolutionary adaptation.


Binge-watching our favourite series actually helps us to survive.


The Dao of storytelling – story-practice makes life-perfect.


Safety in numbers.


The three ways characters can interact.


Problem-solving.


Works cited:




Brian Boyd, On The Origin of Stories, Evolution, Cognition,
and Fiction (2009, Harvard University Press)




Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal, How Stories
Make Us Human (2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)


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