The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human - Jonathan Gottschall
ISBN: 978-0-547-391407 Verdict :👍👍 👍 What a great way to start the new year , finishing this great read which gave me great pleasure with its little antidotes wrapped around brief stories, explaining how we as humans create stories to connect, justify and ‘ how authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work ’. Some amazing nuggets ( Sherlock Holmes, Hitler etc) within this book that make one ponder on actions of others that creep into our lives spinning yarns of lies through our journeys- here are a few; You’ll recall a few key characters and the basic gist: sadly, almost all of the granular detail will be lost in an amnesiac fog ( p64 ) Everyone poops, but this is not the point of eating. Defecation is a side effect of our need to eat. In the same way-according to Flanigan and many other researchers – a dream is just brain waste ( p73 ) In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories, when it can, but will manufacture lies