The Sea We Swim In
How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World
“For the past decade, Rose has shifted his attention from telling stories to dissecting them, researching how technology has collided with humanity’s innate need for narratives. . . . In his latest book, ‘The Sea We Swim In,’ Rose explains the science of how narratives shape our reality and how the Internet has broken the spell of passive consumption.”
—Contagious (UK)
BUILDING ON INSIGHTS from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, ‘The Sea We Swim In’ shows us how to see the world in narrative terms, not as a thesis to be argued or a pitch to be made but as a story to be told. This is the essence of narrative thinking.
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