#68 - Will Storr: Stories Are Controlling Your Life

Update: 2025-06-18

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Why do we fight over politics, follow cults, and smoke even when we know it kills us? Bestselling author and journalist Will Storr joins Tim Green to unpack how storytelling, status, and tribalism drive human behavior. From nearly being executed in South Sudan to ghostwriting memoirs, Will reveals the hidden scripts we live by and how they both save and sabotage us.

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