Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a LeftPodcast.

This is a sample of our recent bonus episode every couple of weeks or so, our crew of researchers,

Amanda and myself get together for a roundtable discussion.

So here's a few minutes for free so you can see what all the fuss is about.

We were given the book A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit by none other than our

very own transcriptionist Scott who told me about it saying he found it life-changing.

And admittedly I haven't finished it yet but I've read enough to know where he's coming

from.

And I think it relates to what we're talking about today and the stories we tell ourselves

because we are definitely in a society that tells us a story that sort of influences

how we think of ourselves and the story we tell about our place in society that is not

so much compatible with how our, I don't know, almost inherent core desires are.

So we started by talking about how I'd played an adventure game years and years ago that

set me on a path of enjoying that kind of game and that what I enjoyed about that is the

storytelling, right?

It's an inherent thing that I like.

It like plugs into my brain in a way that I'm very receptive of because of millions of

years of evolution that have led to humans enjoying stories.

Of course that's not the only thing that humans enjoy.

There's a lot of things that we inherently enjoy and this book is trying to tap into

these aspects of our desire for social ties and meaningful work that is all to scarce

in modern society.

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