Apparently Quote by Robin Marantz Henig

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

— Daniel Taylor

The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our…

— Neal Stephenson

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,…

— Thomas Gilovich

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

— Miguel Nicolelis

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer…

— John P. Kotter

“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“That’s the human brain,” Attavio VI said. “It creates patterns when there aren’t any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where…

— John Scalzi

“Taleb argued that the limitations of the human brain resulted in our species’ tendency to squeeze unrelated facts and events into cause-and-effect equations and…

— Brad Stone

Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what…

— Nathan Englander

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

— Dominic Cummings

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

— Daniel Tammet