This is your brain on storytelling

A fascinating little video about the astonishing physical effects of storytelling on our blood chemistry, heart rate and brain function. Makes me wonder if there's such a thing as extreme readers. Like there are extreme tasters.

Because I might be one...


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Write that! (My life according to Mitchell & Webb)

My life as illustrated by Mitchell and Webb:

 

Ibsen plots a revolution

"I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying around? Truths so elderly that they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie."
Henrik Ibsen

Portrait of Ibsen by Edvard Munch

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt."

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." Robert Hughes