# Stories help us understand the World. 

By [DavidDev](https://paragraph.com/@daviddev) · 2022-05-31

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Stories make us see the world from a different perspective. One that we ourselves are not likely to see through, Whether it is real, fiction or myths.

Through stories, we learn things from experiences of other people and characters, we see the results of doing certain things so that in the future we can avoid doing it, or see the benefits of those actions and apply it to our own current situation in our life.

We tell ourselves stories all the time, these are stories our brain creates trying to figure out what will happen next, what will happen if I or that person performs a certain action.

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Often if someone tell us our faults directly we don’t listen to them, we even feel attacked and resentful sometimes, and there are not a lot of people who are pointing out our faults to us, maybe they think about them, but they would not say it, and we are like this too.

We don’t tend to tell people when they are acting in a wrong way, unless it is very wrong, at least that is my experience (unless it is twitter, where people assume other people’s faults just with reading one sentence), and honestly I don’t think we should, I think that is an individual own journey to figure out what he/she is doing wrong, but we do need input from somewhere as individuals, and the best inputs are stories.

With stories, we get to see the world from a different perspective, we get to “live” through different life times and see and experience the world from different individual's perspectives, and we learn from these stories without literally living them.

It’s easier for us to evaluate stories from an objective light than what other people say or try to teach us directly.

For examples, stories like The Tortoise and the Hare teaches us to that it might not be right to do things as fast as you can, that slow and steady is better, there is a saying in the racing world that goes like;

> Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

From David and Goliath, we learn that if you are on a disadvantage against your opponent, you have opportunities to win as well.

The older stories survive, the more valuable they become, there is a reason they have been passed through thousands of years, and it is probably because they are truth, no in the literal sense many times, but in how we identify inside them as humans. Through the pass of time, they become [Lindy](https://www.wealest.com/articles/lindy-effect).

The [hero’s Journey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey) if one of the stories that have been repeated thousands of times, thousands of ways, from ancient myths to every superhero movie, we have seen this story countless times.

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We tell ourselves Stories all the time, they help us understand ourselves, other people and events, stories are a core part of the human experience, the stories that permeate time have universal wisdom in them, that is the only reason they would survive that long.

That's all I wanted to say about stories, thanks for reading :)

This article was inspired by the book wrote by Jordan Peterson, [maps of meaning](https://amzn.to/3wCUrNp).

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