March 21, 2012; lucidbooks; First, the short version: Excellent book on the power of story. Helpful. I don’t think I’ve ever so enjoyed a book with which I have such fundamental disagreement. Etiquette lessons are often taught by showing what happens to heroes who follow the codes versus villains who break them. Fantastic read. As a writer, I came away from the read feeling like a "super-hero," as my friend and fellow author M.L. This is a fascinating book presenting important findings and theories on stories as a critical dimension of human evolutiont.
This book's tone is informal but it's still informative, kind of like one of Brian Green or Steven Pinker's books, but Gotschall moves from topic to topic quickly enough as to keep things from getting stale (which, in my opinion is what makes the aforementioned authors' books hard to get through sometimes).Engaging book, but acts as an introduction to the topic A positive example might be people who believe in the values of the American democracy and may celebrate key moments like the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Mary Shelly questioned how far science should go in saving a life in Another potential dark aspect of stories is that people also use stories to build conspiracy theories.
Czech Republic Gottschall comments that every person considers him/herself to be the hero of their own story (even if no one else does). This is very important for fields like archaeology or psychology.I was also intrigued by the idea of linking story and empathy.
Gottschall presents a compelling case for the fact that stories help us, as human beings, navigate life's complexities in much the same way that pilots learn to anticipate airborne challenges through the use of flight simulators. They can even be found in role playing games and competition reality TV (e.g. His discussion of storytelling in religion and culture was not necessarily new, but he provided depth to my. Stories began as an oral genre, but in the modern world they can be found in books, radio, movies and TV.
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Posted on March 15, 2016 by Elizabeth Pyatt. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. 20 people found this helpful. How else could Joseph Cambpell have discovered Not surprisingly, Gottschall discusses the universality of stories in human cultures in multiple medias. We are "Homo Fictus," he says.Important insights, although I wanted to love it slightly more than I did
I remember novelist Morgan Llewelyn commenting that she couldn’t understand why students found history boring because “it’s all sex and violence.” That is, instead of concentrating on memorizing dates, it is likely more important to focus on the story behind the dates. Some models suggest that stories can act as a social skills simulation zone. The book makes a compelling case for the power of story and contributed to my own understanding. Gottschall metions a model that one functions of narrative is to allow individuals to model different “dilemmas” and then possibly find solutions (or not).
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One theme that emerges is that a lot of stories are actually about bad things that happen. Not sure what they were expecting.
Similarly, people may build a story to connect inexplicable events in a “coherent” narrative.
Jonathan Gottschall looks into how and why humans are pulled to stories, making various cases and presenting interesting theories along the way.
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In the past, educators have talked about using games and simulations for the same effect, but is this really a byproduct of re-enacting a narrative?Finally, I do think Gottschall points about the dark side of story are very important for education.
This is a quite wonderful book.
In this review, I would like to go through the most engaging parts for me and why I have come to certain conclusions or opinions. We get everything from an up-and-coming theory about how dreams are stories our brain tells "designed" to help us learn and encode information, to how we think in narrative form, to the author's own opinions on the future of story. It’s about the way that stories—from TV commercials to daydreams to the burlesque spectacle of professional wrestling—saturate our lives.
Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. One skill set that many students must learn is how to use data to build a quasi-accurate narrative, but they also need to learn caution not to extrapolate too much from their limited data.
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