We experience our daily lives in the form of a story. The brain creates a world for us to live in and fills it with allies and enemies. It transforms the chaos and bleakness of reality into a simple, hopeful narrative, and at the center, it places its star—my wonderful, precious self—which sets a series of goals that become the plots of our lives. Story is what the brain does. It is a "story processor," as psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt writes, not a logic processor.
Story emerges from human minds as naturally as breath emerges from human lips. You don't have to be a genius to master it. You already do it. Becoming a better storyteller is simply a matter of looking inward, at the mind itself, and wondering how it does it.