A Story of Stories describes how narratives and certain types of stories drive conflict and decision making and dominate groups of individuals’ behaviors. The "stories" function something like a brain to giants.

Check out the full story here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

This is also the title of Chapter 3 from The Story of Us: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/stories.html

And a longer discussion of the Story of Stories phenomenon and other related ideas here: https://youtu.be/Plgk6eUPnpU

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