This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast Episode 9 with Derrill Cooper and me, Jocco Willink.

So, last time we were talking about the stories that we tell ourselves and then how we get

stories and groups and those start to expand and those start to unify people together.

And it seems that we have an instinct towards some level of those stories unifying us to

a point to where we start to drift into just straight tribalism.

And then we actually use those stories and change those stories as a tool to strengthen

our tribes even more.

And I know you had some interesting stories, slash myths that kind of represent that

very well throughout history we've seen this.

It's tapping into a basic way that our mind structures reality for us.

If you think about how you teach the youngest children something, if you need to teach

them something, you need to teach them to tie their shoes.

How are you going to do that?

Through imitation, you're going to show them, do what I do.

That's the same thing that like chimpanzees, how they teach their children things.

As they get a little bit older, what's the next way that you're going to teach them stuff?

Probably maybe by like five, six, seven years old, you're going to start teaching them basic

things about what a good person behaves like, whatever.

You're going to do it through stories.

That's like the next level up.

It's like later on down the road, you can start talking about concepts.

You can start teaching them, teaching somebody things in terms of, instead of telling you

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