The Stories of Your Life

A fascinating, entertaining and deeply smart journey into the storytelling brain – Will Storr, bestselling author of The Status Game and The Science of Storytelling
Stories are essential for human beings. They allow us to learn, to connect, to empathize. The best stories follow structures that catalyze and amplify their power. In The Stories of Your Life, Ben Ambridge decodes and deciphers these master plots so we all can benefit and grow – Matt Abrahams, author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter and host of Think Fast, Talk Smart
Life - and the quite appalling behaviour of everyone I know - finally makes sense. Read this remarkable book – Andrew Gold, author of The Psychology of Secrets and host of Heretics

Ben Ambridge is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Manchester and the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD). His first two books, Psy-Q: You Know Your IQ - Now Test Your Psychological Intelligence and Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee have sold over 100,000 copies across sixteen language editions. These books led to regular columns in The Observer and The Big Issue, appearances on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Breakfast Show, the BBC’s Tiny Happy People website, talks at Google, The Royal Institution, Oxford Literary Festival, Wilderness Festival and Bestival, and a TEDx talk, ‘Nine Myths About Psychology’, that has had over 3 million views.

Ben’s day job as a prolific researcher of experimental psycholinguistics keeps him up to date with findings from the psychology, linguistics and neuroscience literature; knowledge that will prove extremely valuable when undertaking a writing project at the intersection of these disciplines.

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