Coming to you from the bleak barren tarmac of University Avenue, hidden away deep in the studio I like to call the old outpost, ready to deliver something of worth, something of meaning. My name's Mishki.

It's story time.. It's story time.

Or if not story time, the time to tell stories about stories.

Hang in there, you'll understand.

One a two a three a.

Yeah. One a two a three a. Welcome to the show everyone. I'm holding a book in my hands with the title,

The Story of Stories. The million-year history of a uniquely human art. Storytelling.

But it's not what you think.

What one learns reading the story of stories

is that we're all storytellers,

and we're telling stories every day, most of the day.

We're thinking of stories.

We're remembering stories.

We're passing along stories.

What you learn in the story of stories is story itself is the fundamental human experience. It's as natural to us and as common and as ubiquitous as breathing itself. We are born storytellers. We live our lives telling stories, taking in stories, thinking about stories. And what's truly profound about what I learned in the story of stories is that our very

language was born from a need to tell stories. We didn't first get our language and then decide to tell stories.

We developed our language from a yearning to tell stories,

beginning with the very first night we sat around a fire,

a million or more years ago.

The Story of Stories, Kevin Ashton is the author.

He's also the author of How to Fly a Horse,

The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery.

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