For other podcast summaries,search 'podcast summaries' in any podcast apps. Or if you're on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/5-min-summaries Key ideas: How stories can be a safe place for our thoughts, the value of reaction fiction stories & why everyone should journal or write. 1 quote: "We are the only animals that can cooperate with numerous strangers because only we can invent fictional stories, spread them around, and have people believe in them. As long as everybody believes in the same stories, we can follow the same rules and cooperate effectively." Idea 1: Stories provide us with a safe space to be able to interact with difficult things such as trauma and repressed feelings. In our stories, we can do things that we can't do in real life, on a page, we can rewrite stories from our past, we can reframe them, invent new characters, in our stories, we can control what happens. Idea 2: It seems like the brain regions we employ when we we're understanding stories is the same as the ...