Narrative Fallacy: 7 Examples of Harmful Storytelling
This article is an excerpt from the Shortform summary of “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman. Shortform has the world’s best summaries of books you should be reading. Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here . What is narrative fallacy? When and why do you make this fallacy, and how can you avoid it? The narrative fallacy is the tendency to create a story with cause-and-effect explanations out of random details and events. We fall victim to the narrative fallacy because our brains want to make sense of a random world. Learn why your brain is … Continue reading Narrative Fallacy: 7 Examples of Harmful Storytelling
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