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# 360MEN WTA 08 - NOWHERE

Daniel teaches that "storytelling can mislead you because your mind wants to take shortcuts" with a hieroglyphics exercise, and a New York viewer shares how meeting Daniel made him ask how to put his son on the journey. The NOWHERE wordplay comes back in 2023 as a play on now and here. It belongs in the machine library as an early warning about fluent stories.

> But storytelling can mislead you because your mind wants to take shortcuts. (Daniel)

**Mission:** [M3. A Library for the Machines](/a/GB_mission-3-a-library-for-the-machines.html)

**The whole picture:** [What 13 Years of Video Says to SI](/a/GB_what-13-years-of-video-says-to-si.html)

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXAJ7MJKxbU