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    This document discusses two secrets related to cognition and storytelling. The cognitive secret is that people are goal-directed and try to understand others' agendas to further their own goals. The story secret is that a protagonist without a clear goal has no direction or purpose in a story.

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    This document discusses two secrets related to cognition and storytelling. The cognitive secret is that people are goal-directed and try to understand others' agendas to further their own goals. The story secret is that a protagonist without a clear goal has no direction or purpose in a story.

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    T202 L02 What Does Your Protagonist Really Want

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    This document discusses two secrets related to cognition and storytelling. The cognitive secret is that people are goal-directed and try to understand others' agendas to further their own goals. The story secret is that a protagonist without a clear goal has no direction or purpose in a story.

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    / COGNITIVE SECRET:

    Everything we do is goal directed, and our biggest goal is figuring


    out everyone else's agenda, the better to achieve our own.

    STORY SECRET:

    A protagonist without a clear goal has nothing


    to figure out and nowhere to go.

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