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While I couldn't pinpoint an exact origin for this quote within his writings, it aligns with the era of self-discovery that Storr navigated during the 2010s.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nAt first glance, \"The gift of story is wisdom\" seems to suggest that stories possess inherent value and provide profound insights. However, upon closer examination, it reveals a more complex dynamic: the quote actually implies that the act of storytelling itself confers wisdom, rather than the content of the story being wise. This nuance suggests that the process of creating narratives can be just as instructive as the narrative's message.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nAs creatives and professionals, we can harness this insight by embracing the iterative nature of storytelling in our own work. Rather than solely focusing on crafting a compelling narrative, try to cultivate an environment where you're continually experimenting with new ideas and refining your understanding through the act of telling stories, even if they don't all end up being \"successful\".",{"id":24,"quote_text":25,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":26,"source":27,"quote_tag":28,"commentary":9},3508548,"Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.′ Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new information leads to an increase in ignorance, it is the opposite of learning, the death of wisdom.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":30,"quote_text":31,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":32,"source":33,"quote_tag":34,"commentary":9},3508539,"Haven’t we all done this? Hardened a particular position, not as a response to superior information, but because of anger?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":36,"quote_text":37,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":38,"source":39,"quote_tag":40,"commentary":9},3508529,"I know that I am not right about everything, and yet I am simultaneously convinced that I am. I believe these two things completely, and yet they are in catastrophic logical opposition to each other.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":42,"quote_text":43,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":44,"source":45,"quote_tag":46,"commentary":9},3508516,"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we’ll ever really come to escape.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":48,"quote_text":49,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":50,"source":51,"quote_tag":52,"commentary":9},3508506,"But once more, here I am – confronted with the counter-intuitive notion that intelligence is no protection against strange beliefs.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":54,"quote_text":55,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":56,"source":57,"quote_tag":58,"commentary":9},3508478,"Intelligence is no protection against strange beliefs.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":60,"quote_text":61,"author_id":5,"source_id":62,"has_image":18,"author":63,"source":64,"quote_tag":65,"commentary":9},758551,"... for now though our investigation into how future enters and then changes us must return to the idea of the self as a storyteller. In doing so we will realize just how porous the boundary is really is between the stories that surround us and the story that is us.",2,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[66],{"id":67,"tag":68},3609194,{"id":69,"tag_name":70},28216,"selfie",{"id":72,"quote_text":73,"author_id":5,"source_id":62,"has_image":18,"author":74,"source":75,"quote_tag":76,"commentary":9},646183,"Plato believed in metaphorical realm of pure form.. Aristotle, his pupil, rejected this, insisting that the only reality is that which we consent. 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When new information leads to an increase in ignorance, it is the opposite of learning, the death of wisdom.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[88],{"id":89,"tag":90},3036637,{"id":91,"tag_name":92},3064,"bias",{"currentPage":94,"totalPages":62,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":95},1,10]