Lisa Cron on Story or Die: Question the Story

Some of you may know that I’ve been working on a new book. The provisional title is ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future. Struggling with this book is why it’s been a number of months since my last podcast interview. And so I thought it could be useful to me and interesting to you if I were to have a conversation with a few story experts and ask them questions such as why story, what is story and, perhaps most importantly, how does it relate to technology, AI, being human and our future. Today is the first interview of this series and my guest is Lisa Cron. Lisa is the author of Story or Die and Wired for Story which is also the title of her fantastic TEDx talk you can see under her bio below. During this 2.5-hour interview with Lisa Cron, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: why story; the definition of story; why our biology shows we are wired for story; story as a virtual reality simulator; consciousness and story; the boomerang effect of scientific evidence; the only way of walking into someone’s shoes; language, emotion, and the patriarchy; the cure and poison of story; if or how social media is hacking story; the story of AI, democracy, and humanity; ReWriting the Human Story. You can watch the full video of the interview here: https://www.singularityweblog.com/lisa-cron/