Inventing Reality: Stories We Create To Explain Everything - Softcover

Schrank, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642379352 ISBN 13: 9781642379358

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press, 2020

Synopsis

"You are a reality inventor. People simply don't give you enough credit; in fact, you don't appreciate your own creative ability. What does it mean to be a reality inventor? Isn't reality simply stuff that's out there? We see,hear, taste, feel, and smell it; but we certainly don't invent it. This book claims that you do.Humans are animals who create stories. We are unable to not story--we speak and think in stories called sentences. INVENTING REALITY explores the psychology of story making and confabulation. We confabulate when we create stories without an awareness of our authorship. These confabulations are not perceived as invented stories; instead they become our personal reality."

About this title

About the Author

This is the tenth book by Jeffrey Schrank. His previous titles include Deception Detection, Teaching Human Beings, and Snap, Crackle and Popular Taste. He has authored textbooks on writing and mass media and founded The Learning Seed Company.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642379352
• ISBN 13: 9781642379358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390