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Stories populate our lives. If you are not a fan of stories, you might imagine that the best world is a world without them, where we can only see the facts in front of us. But to do this is to (a)
deny how our brains work, how they are
designed to work. Evolution has given us minds that are alert to stories and suggestion because, through many hundreds of thousands of years of natural selection, minds that can attend to stories have been more (b)
successful at passing on their owners’ genes.
Think about what happens, for example, when animals face one another in conflict. They rarely plunge into battle right away. No, they first try to (c)
signal in all kinds of ways what the
outcome of the battle is going to be. They puff up their chests, they roar, and they bare their fangs. Animals evolved to attend to stories and signals because these turn out to be an efficient way to navigate the world. If you and I were a pair of lions on the Serengeti, and we were trying to decide the strongest lion, it would be most (d)
sensible — for both of us — to plunge straight into a conflict. It is far better for each of us to make a show of strength, to tell
the story of how our victory is inevitable. If one of those stories is much more (e)
convincing than the other, we might be able to agree on the outcome without actually having the fight.
* fang: 송곳니
① The Light and Dark Sides of Storytelling
② How to Interpret Various Signals of Animals
③ Why Are We Built to Pay Attention to Stories?
④ Story: A Game Changer for Overturning a Losing Battle
⑤ Evolution: A History of Human’s Coexistence with Animals