Jonathan Gottschall

  • Ivanahas quoted2 months ago
    We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    While your body is always fixed at a particular point in space-time, your mind is always free to ramble in lands of make-believe. And it does.
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    The writer guides the way we imagine but does not determine it.
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    While our bodies are always locked into a specific here and now, our imaginations free us to roam space-time.
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    The brain is not designed for story; there are glitches in its design that make it vulnerable to story. Stories, in all their variety and splendor, are just lucky accidents of the mind’s jury-rigged construction. Story may educate us, deepen us, and give us joy. Story may be one of the things that makes it most worthwhile to be human. But that doesn’t mean story has a biological purpose.
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