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Directions (Q. Nos. 116 - 120) : Read the passage below and answer the following questions. Storytelling is not in our genes, neither is it an evolutionary history. It is the essence of what makes us human. Human beings progress by telling stories, One event can result in a great variety of stories being told about it, sometimes, those stories differ greatly, which stories are picked up and repeated and which ones are dropped and forgotten often determines how we progress. Our history, knowledge and understanding are all the collections of the few stories that survive. This includes the stories that we tell cache other about the future. And how the future will turn out depends party. possibly largely, on which stories we collectively choose to believe. Some stories are designed to spread fear and concern. This is because some storytellers feel that there is a need to raise some tensions. Some stories are frightening, they are like totemic warnings. fail to act now and we are all doomed. Then, there are stories that indicate that all will be fine so long as we leave everything up to a few especially able adults. Currently, this trend is being led by those who call themselves rational optimists'. They tend to claim that it is unman nature to compete and succeed and also to profit at the expense of others. The rational optimists however, do not realize, how humanity progressed overtime through amiable social networks and how large groups work in less selfishness and in the process accommodate rich and poor, high and low alike, this aspect in storytelling is considered by the 'Practical Possibilities', who sit between those who say all is fine and cheerful and be individualistic in your approach to a successful future and those who ordain pessimism and fear that we are doomed. Humans become less selfish when: