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Dr. Robert Greene discusses how humans have a preference for illusion and fiction over reality. He mentions that in our culture, we idolize celebrities and movie stars who create illusions rather than philosophers or practical individuals. Greene incorporates storytelling in his books to engage readers. He plans to start his video stream by sharing his life story and explaining his creative thinking and motivations. He references Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and mentions a "call to action" as the first step. Deception by Dr. Robert Greene. There's a quote from T.S. Eliot, something to the effect that we humans have a little stomach for reality. And basically we love illusion. We truly love illusions. We love good stories. We love engaging fiction. We don't really like reality. We see it pretty much in our cultivated culture. Who do we venerate the most in this stance culture? Really, the last stand? We don't idolize philosophers, if there are any more philosophers. We don't look up to practical people who build high quality things anymore. And we worship movie stars and celebrities, people who manufacture industrial illusion, who are superficial to the core. That's what we always admire. There's Latin expression that means we humans love deception. We love to be deceived. And even as children, what we loved than anything was listening to a story. So I've been incorporated that in my books. I always begin each chapter with a story to kind of lure you into my book. Speech captured from one of Mr. Robert Greene's interview. And that's how I'm going to start my video stream. Let's begin it with my life story. How I get to this creative state, this realm of thinking. And the reason why I do all of the things that I've shown you here. The Hero with Thousand Voices. Inspired by Joseph Campbell. Number one. Call to action. There's no step two.