The Stories of Your Life
The Eight Stories That Explain the World Around Us
$31.99
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2025
Summary
From internationally bestselling author Ben Ambridge, The Story of Your Life shares fascinating lessons about the nature of humanity, the power of psychology and - most importantly - the way we see ourselves.
We understand the world through stories. All of our experiences, all of our insights - psychologically, we interpret them through specific lenses that have been curated, perfected and passed down throughout human history. Professor Ben Ambridge has quantified those lense…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035018390 |
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| ISBN-10: | 103501839X |
| Author: | Ben Ambridge |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 152mm x 233mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
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
Ben Ambridge is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Manchester and the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD). 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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