JONATHAN COOK: We tell the stories that create both past and future
What influences us is not so much the facts of the past, but stories that direct our efforts to create the future
02 September 2024 - 22:00
Once upon a time a bright young person launched into a career full of promise and maybe some foreboding...
Nothing captures the human imagination quite like a story. In his book The Storytelling Animal Jonathan Gottschall suggests it is stories that make us human. “We are, as a species, addicted to story.”..
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