Your Brain Rewards You for Stories

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]But we are the only creatures [music] that can tell a story and have a history.

[00:00:06]And whenever we [music] even finish hearing a story, like Little Red Riding Hood, we get the the end of it, our brain releases serotonin. So we're rewarded. Story. [music] And I think this is because, you know, when people say we have a [music] god-sized hole in our heart for love.

[00:00:25]But I also think we have to have the machinery, so to speak, [music] to be able to understand history and our place in it.

[00:00:33]And