Today we talked about how our brain likes to find patterns and structure. Part of this structure is the narrative we each tell ourselves, the story of our life. ‘You Are Not So Smart’ is an excellent blog and podcast which deals with how our brain works and how it can sometimes fool us. In this excerpt, David McRaney reads a section from his book which deals with narrative bias.
The Podcast is about 20 minutes and can be played directly from this site or you can visit the You Are Not So Smart blog and listen to it there with some additional information.
Some things to think about
While listening, please consider the following things:
- Do you think you have a narrative bias?
- How does what is being discussed in this podcast relate to current movies, TV shows or books?
- How could you use people’s narrative bias in your art?
- Think of an example where narrative bias might have affected the way you or someone else behaved.
- Now that you know about the idea of narrative bias what would you do, if anything, to avoid it tripping you up?
The audio
For more information visit the You Are Not So Smart website.
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