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“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers or equations, and the simpler the story, the better. Every person, group and nation has its own tales and myths.” - says Yuval Noah Harari in his book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.
This quote
- reinforces Harari’s take on how important stories are for the human kind (5b1-stories-are-so-essential-that-without-it-we-wouldn-t-even-be-human-harari-says), and
- it hints on how they can both connect and separate. A group’s story connects the members of the group, but it separates the group from other groups.
Related
- Labels can help us connect, but also to discriminate, disconnect. 5b1a1-labels-can-help-both-to-connect-and-to-disconnect