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Africa is a place where people still sit under starlit skies and around campfires and tell stories, and so what I have to share with you today is the simple medicine of a few campfire stories, stories about heroes of heart.

Now my stories are not the stories that you'll hear on the news, and while it's true that Africa is a harsh place, I also know it to be a place where people, animals and ecosystems teach us about a more interconnected world.

And every time, you get the same result: People who are made aware of their mortality are more willing to believe stories that tell them they can escape death and live forever.

We develop our worldviews, that is, the stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it, in order to help us manage the terror of death.

And these immortality stories have thousands of different manifestations, but I believe that behind the apparent diversity there are actually just four basic forms that these immortality stories can take.

So those are the four basic kinds of immortality stories, and I've tried to give just some sense of how they're retold by each generation with just slight variations to fit the fashions of the day.

And the fact that they recur in this way, in such a similar form but in such different belief systems, suggests, I think, that we should be skeptical of the truth of any particular version of these stories.

Rather, we believe these stories because we are biased to believe them, and we are biased to believe them because we are so afraid of death.

So that question is really powerful, and it was certainly powerful to us in the moment, when you connect it to the stories that some Detroiters had, and actually a lot of African-Americans' families have had that are living in Midwestern cities like Detroit.

Many of them told us the stories about how they came to own their home through their grandparents or great-grandparents, who were one of 1.6 million people who migrated from the rural South to the industrial North, as depicted in this painting by Jacob Lawrence, "The Great Migration."

The audience members who come and talk to us that night tell us the stories of what it's like to live in a city with such depleted population.

And I realized through the process that I had to be more honest and more open, and I had to tell my stories.

My stories of still not feeling as self-confident as I should, in many situations.

Whenever they did news stories about building violations in New York, they would put the report in front of our building, as kind of, like, a backdrop to show how bad things are.

I had all these stories and ideas, and I wanted to share them with people, but physiologically, I couldn't do it.

You know, I think we all love hearing about gross stories, because it's a socially acceptable way to explore the gross side of ourselves.

And one of them is the extraordinary social complexity of the animals around us, and today I want to tell you a few stories of animal complexity.

They were able to correctly match photos of different facial expressions with stories designed to trigger particular feelings.

Our ads blanketed the airwaves, and women, for the first time, started to tell their stories.

So many stories emerge from these dynamics of alteration of space, such as "the informal Buddha," which tells the story of a small house that saved itself, it did not travel to Mexico, but it was retrofitted in the end into a Buddhist temple, and in so doing, this small house transforms or mutates from a singular dwelling into a small, or a micro, socioeconomic and cultural infrastructure inside a neighborhood.

As an artist, I've been interested, in fact, in the visualization of citizenship, the gathering of many anecdotes, urban stories, in order to narrativize the relationship between social processes and spaces.

And he tells wondrous stories of playing for hours with his friends, running up and down the beautiful rock formations that dot the countryside around his home.

For all the scare stories, the actual actions of investors spoke of rapid acceptance and confidence.

I noticed that, despite all the efforts, there were familiar stories that kept resurfacing about individuals.

And then there were stories like Sidney, the CEO, who was so frustrated because her company is cited as a best company for leaders, but only one of the top 50 leaders is equipped to lead their crucial initiatives.

And then there were stories like the senior leadership team of a once-thriving business that's surprised by a market shift, finds itself having to force the company to reduce its size in half or go out of business.

Now, these recurring stories cause me to ask two questions.

One of the things that I did, I was so consumed by these questions and also frustrated by those stories, that I left my job so that I could study this full time, and I took a year to travel to different parts of the world to learn about effective and ineffective leadership practices in companies, countries and nonprofit organizations.

There are many very specific stories of how that actually happened.

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