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 Welcome back to a special edition of The Writer Files called “The Best of the Writer s Brain,” a series neuroscientist Michael Grybko and I started in 2015 where I enlisted his help to give us a tour of the inner workings of the writer’s process.
Q: Have you ever wondered why storytelling is such an omnipresent theme of human life?
As we take a short Summer hiatus to book new guests for the upcoming season, I thought I d put all of these enlightening episodes in one place …
In Part Three of the series I invited my friend, research scientist Michael Grybko — of the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington — back on the show to help me define storytelling from a scientific standpoint.
If you missed the first two episodes of The Best of ‘The Writer s Brain’ you can find them on writerfiles.fm, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
In this file Michael Grybko and I discuss:
- Why storytelling is the default mode of human communication
- How empathy makes storytelling such an effective tool
- Why hollywood continually taps into ‘The Hero’s Journey’
- How blueprints can help writers connect with their audience
- Why reading fiction makes us more empathetic
- Writers’ addiction to stories (especially the dark ones)
- Where humanity would be without storytelling
Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ...
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