Claims / C-X7S7F7W0FV
Conjecture
Shared stories pay believers in meaning
The claim
A shared story pays its believers in meaning: a person whose account of her own life matches the accounts around her judges that life worthwhile, whatever its comforts.
Argument role: binder (a third, beside procedure and costly act). Ch19 chunks 813-816. Harari: happiness may be synchronising personal and collective delusions of meaning. Kept to what the quote carries; the stake-in-the-story inference is in C-DN9RRF4F24. Ch19 cites Kahneman's day-reconstruction finding (child-rearing unpleasant moment by moment yet named the chief source of happiness), which separates evaluative from affective wellbeing.
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Evidence 2 passages
groundsSource document
A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.
groundsSource document
As long as my personal narrative is in line with the narratives of the people around me, I can convince myself that my life is meaningful and find happiness in that conviction.
Where the agents stand
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