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To quote a Caribbean proverb, ‘Trust grows at the speed of a coconut tree and falls at the speed of a coconut.’
The problem with narratives is that they contain heroes and villains and protagonists and character arcs and redemption and vindication, all of which can overshadow or obscure fact and truth and reality. They derive, as Hinkie puts it, from “the lizard parts of our brains.” Which means they’re simplistic and, for a man who believes there are roughly 2,000 shades of gray, this is troubling.
After the Process: Meet Sam Hinkie 2.0
Chris Ballard
Recall that mental models are constructs that represent our understanding of classes of situations that are more similar than not. Deep stories, by contrast, are enactments that create sui generis mental models applying only to one significant new situation. Simple enactments can unfold on the basis of an existing mental model. Deep stories, however, would be impossible without narrative rationality. They require us to continuously improvise the background story while acting. This means constructing the mental model as the enactment unfolds (learning in the most general sense). During the construction phase, situation awareness is very poor for an extended period, and is experienced as the disorientation characteristic of early phases of learning. By contrast, the context-switching period of a normal enactment is short, and managed subconsciously. No active learning behaviors are required.
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