How stories shape our minds | The science of storytelling | BBC Ideas

We explore the science of storytelling and the power of stories to shape our minds - how stories make us human, why stories matter, and why stories are important in our lives. Books are incredibly powerful. We look at what happens inside the brain when you read.
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  • @alis7135
    @alis71354 жыл бұрын

    People this is my first comment on a KZread video ever, and I would like to say as a fellow bookworm myself that this was uploaded on my birthday!

  • @strellafrancis7717

    @strellafrancis7717

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your birthday gift ! Happy belated birthday !

  • @adventureawaits3860

    @adventureawaits3860

    4 жыл бұрын

    Belated happy birthday!

  • @whoever1

    @whoever1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to the internet lol

  • @mohammadanasmazhar7954

    @mohammadanasmazhar7954

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@strellafrancis7717 p

  • @juanitabalanza118

    @juanitabalanza118

    2 жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @fikrutsegaye2803
    @fikrutsegaye2803Ай бұрын

    breaks my heart that this vid underrated in terms of views, deserves hundreds of millions of views

  • @cynthiach8214
    @cynthiach82143 жыл бұрын

    This video is a stimulus for me to keep reading on this quarantine!

  • @khalidhamdy1
    @khalidhamdy15 жыл бұрын

    this is a very good video :D -- many thanks BBC

  • @LMNstudiosKe
    @LMNstudiosKe4 жыл бұрын

    OK, am off to some reading now. Thanks BBC.👍

  • @lakshmipriya5550
    @lakshmipriya55504 жыл бұрын

    At first I hated Harry Potter because the inside of the book didn't look nice for me with small letters here and there. But then one day I forced myself to read this book and that changed my life. I am a very big Harry Potter fan. And I feel stupid for not acknowledging this book earlier.

  • @komalpandey5165
    @komalpandey51654 жыл бұрын

    I fell in love with the content!

  • @samir175
    @samir175 Жыл бұрын

    This video motivated me to go for a book, and learn more about storytelling :)

  • @callmecutie
    @callmecutie4 жыл бұрын

    Why does such an inspiring video get not so many views?

  • @uzonani_Art-Anime

    @uzonani_Art-Anime

    3 жыл бұрын

    Blame the KZread algorithm and then the fact that this generation loves too much of tik tok challenges, netflix and chill etc. Lol. Anyway, I'm also part of this generation but I prefer some balance. I personally take out time to find videos like this because they are very informative and entertaining at the same time.

  • @That_Freedom_Guy

    @That_Freedom_Guy

    Жыл бұрын

    It is ego's job to discard Truth. Observe and learn!

  • @digitalxpert9855
    @digitalxpert98553 жыл бұрын

    This content is addictive; I enjoyed watching every sec of it. Thanks✌

  • @RobotikosAkademija
    @RobotikosAkademija5 ай бұрын

    Incredible!

  • @athuldas4959
    @athuldas49592 жыл бұрын

    This channel is a treasure

  • @santoshmutagekar9718
    @santoshmutagekar971811 ай бұрын

    Excellent

  • @deantucker4938
    @deantucker49385 жыл бұрын

    Could you provide a list of the music used in this video?

  • @KomalDixit-pb1jv
    @KomalDixit-pb1jv Жыл бұрын

    Stories learn a great lesson of life

  • @BlueSoulTiger
    @BlueSoulTiger5 жыл бұрын

    The underlying story here is that stories are good; but of course they also are used for nefarious purposes - something that should at least have been mentioned in this short clip. After all, what is a "story"?: it's a selection of available facts that plausibly fit together according some "logic" or set of linkages i.e. not the whole "truth," just a partial one. The better claim, as the blurb says, is that stories are powerful: they can reduce prejudice, but conversely, it ought to be acknowledged that they can also incite it (assuming "prejudice" is used perjoratively).

  • @KnottyCeltic

    @KnottyCeltic

    5 жыл бұрын

    Of course. If it didn't work then for example publishers who print the works of authors that interest the likes of SkinHeads, KKK, Neo-Nazi's etc... would all go out of business. As you point out, the process of reading can work on the brain in both directions.

  • @ScottMcArthur

    @ScottMcArthur

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I frame this as “facts tell but stories sell”

  • @anushkas6093
    @anushkas60935 жыл бұрын

    I thought that Harry potter's life is similar to my life but at 1:10 I realized I was taking the identity of Harry potter! (I spy on a vampire, who studys in my class)

  • @fructuous7242
    @fructuous72423 жыл бұрын

    Saint-saens Aquarium? Let's go! 😳

  • @mellow-yellow918
    @mellow-yellow9184 жыл бұрын

    A book instills its life unto the reader

  • @SerapioSergiovich
    @SerapioSergiovich2 жыл бұрын

    Movie with great ideas.

  • @louiserose2609
    @louiserose260910 ай бұрын

    What is the difference between fiction or non-fiction? As far as the mind is concerned.

  • @ramdhiwakarseetharaman5989
    @ramdhiwakarseetharaman5989 Жыл бұрын

    For some reason, stories are too overwhelming for me, yet my mind gets entertained from it. After 2 hours of watching a movie both good or bad, my mental state is affected. And I did some searching to find out that, stories basically trigger uncertainity in our brains, which is kind of a emotional rush. Whats interesting is almost all cravings have same effect, sugar to porn to stories. Entertainment / distraction seems to be a law in human brain / minds.

  • @tundranocaps
    @tundranocaps2 жыл бұрын

    Of course, stories can also increase prejudice, so one has to be careful with what one reads.

  • @meniarsboui9285
    @meniarsboui92854 жыл бұрын

    it really makes me wanna read a book

  • @mikeharrison1868
    @mikeharrison18686 ай бұрын

    Hmm. Interesting that it focused so much on reading, rather than going to live storytelling performance sessions. I'm sure that the advantages cited for taking in stories by reading would also apply to stories taken in by listening.

  • @jyotiprakash6303
    @jyotiprakash63034 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @mariemac5347
    @mariemac53472 жыл бұрын

    The BBC do a great job with everything they do

  • @vikaschenna3274
    @vikaschenna32744 жыл бұрын

    But why don't we get the same mirror neuron effect when we watch a movie?

  • @sheerajzakir

    @sheerajzakir

    3 жыл бұрын

    But italian neuroscientist states that our deeply emotional cinematic experience are a product of mirror neurons.

  • @pnr2736
    @pnr27362 жыл бұрын

    Yo

  • @zes3813
    @zes38132 жыл бұрын

    wrr

  • @That_Freedom_Guy
    @That_Freedom_Guy Жыл бұрын

    So, what do Bible stories do to people? What about the story of ourselves, the ego. What if we stop identifying with story characters, will we cease to exist, psychologically speaking? If so, what does that teach about "self"? (These are rhetorical questions, to direct attention.)✌️

  • @metamorphosis5407
    @metamorphosis5407 Жыл бұрын

    Yeah i close yt now and pick a book 😉

  • @robmaddison8645
    @robmaddison86454 жыл бұрын

    An opinion about homosexual marriage or immigration should be based upon a set of conclusions developed by a person through the process of weighing up the pre-existing knowledge we have about the subject and the various arguments circulating within this sphere (moral, cultural, spiritual etc). I find it very strange that whilst we find ourselves as human beings experiencing things within this wonderful vessel of ours some people would spend time and effort to encode a story with information in the attempt to bypass the faculty of reason within the human being by seeding such prejudices in the subconscious before our faculty of reason naturally unfolds. Is this not social engineering?

  • @DevoteeOfAergia

    @DevoteeOfAergia

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is. Part of it is because with ever increasing technology, we are flooded with so much information that an average person now has a very short attention span. So reading a headline here or a tweet there is what most people use to gather information. In the long term, this is seriously detrimental to society because rational conclusions can only be reached by an in-depth knowledge of the matter at hand.

  • @fikrutsegaye2803
    @fikrutsegaye28035 ай бұрын

    You have no idea what this vid is for me personally. BBC Ideas has no matches !

  • @semabusra640
    @semabusra6402 жыл бұрын

    bbcideas videos should be translated to other languages

  • @shazkingdom1702
    @shazkingdom17025 жыл бұрын

    😂 AHA!!!

  • @montumeroe9593
    @montumeroe95933 жыл бұрын

    So in other words if you're not part of the dominant group and they have to power to make law to make your life a nightmare write your own stories. Whether it be fantasy, sci fi, none fiction write your own stories don't consume theirs.

  • @LastMomentMan
    @LastMomentMan Жыл бұрын

    That means, the owner of the the TV movies, which can virtualize the story, can change the mind of the world.! That is a dangerous weapon on the hand of minority people, which allow them to spread bad things or good things around the world. Which is not a democratic practice.

  • @letsgo5799
    @letsgo57992 жыл бұрын

    If you liked this video and want to know more about this topic on a deeper but also easy way to understand go check Jordan Peterson talk with Angus Fletcher. You won’t regret.

  • @fikamonster2564
    @fikamonster25642 жыл бұрын

    i dont feel like fiction ever immerses me that much. hm

  • @supahjadi8944
    @supahjadi894410 ай бұрын

    People dont watch,read, or "observe" stories. We experience them.

  • @asdfgh-mr2lu
    @asdfgh-mr2lu2 жыл бұрын

    You dont have to be of the same race to identify with someone

  • @SajiSNairNair-tu9dk
    @SajiSNairNair-tu9dk6 ай бұрын

    👉human created? 👉🌏

  • @user-hl8ft8ib1b
    @user-hl8ft8ib1b2 жыл бұрын

    what if the story is a great propaganda? it would give power to fascists and liars ! how can you differentiate !!

  • @mmmmhi5631
    @mmmmhi56313 жыл бұрын

    The HOLY BIBLE is the best book.

  • @theothercomicguy
    @theothercomicguy8 ай бұрын

    Just had to throw in political agenda. Grow up already.