It’s story time: why narrative is so profoundly important to us all
9 min readJun 11, 2020
Life has been narrativised by humans from the earliest times, from prehistoric art on the walls of caves to the beginnings of spoken and written language. One can only speculate about the origins of narrative, what compelled the very first stories and what they might have been about: ancestral legends or wrangles with the gods, perhaps, campfire tales of hunting exploits or…