A thread through the episode: non-fiction 'hits you with the facts', while fiction transports you and can deliver the same lesson, or a bigger one, because we change by being moved emotionally. Storytelling is how wisdom was passed down by the fire.
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The best fiction-making machine that we have is our mind when we go to sleep at night. You're building worlds and stories every single night, and a novel is just that same thing in a pill format.
- We change by being moved, not informed
Self-improvement through accumulating information has limits. We actually change by being impacted emotionally, which is why fiction and storytelling, not facts, have carried wisdom since…