📗 Libro en inglés THE STORIES OF YOUR LIFE

A fascinating entertaining and deeply smart journey into the storytelling brain Will Storr bestselling author of The Status Game and The Science of Storytelling Life and the quite appalling behaviour of everyone I know finally makes sense Read this remarkable book Andrew Gold author of The Psychology of Secrets and host of Heretics We understand the world through stories All of our experiences all of our insights psychologically we interpret them through specific lenses that have been curated perfected and passed down throughout human history Internationally bestselling author Professor Ben Ambridge has quantified those lenses into eight distinct masterplots that can apply to any experience The mother who wakes up an hour early every day to prep her child s breakfast She s playing out the Sacrifice plot The amateur sports team who go on to win the big trophy against all the odds They re part of the Underdog narrative Ambridge uses examples from fiction real life and popular psychology research to demonstrate how we not only naturally gravitate towards the masterplot narratives but how we actually use those narratives to manipulate the world around us like the addict who uses the Monster plot to paint their illn