Sharing experiences is not an occasional but a systematic activity of our species, a form of information exchange and social organization. Teachable experience takes an individual who receives an advanced model of behavior much further in his or her success in life. The sharing and teaching of experience has become so intrinsic and beneficial to our species that an investigation into which forms of sharing/teaching are most effective – the best stories and the best ways to interpret them – has naturally come into play. In a short time, activities such as storytelling and play (ritual and theatrical) attracted the attention of human communities around the world. Storytelling and its dramatic counterpart, play, have become essential to our progress as a species. In the 1920s Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian cultural philosopher, named "patron of the humanities in the 1990s") also introduced his theory of dialogism, which became the basis of a new dialogic anthropological discipline. Bakhtin suggested that dialogue is an essential human condition, and a framework of culture, and all its derivatives – texts, stories, films, games, etc. In other words, we always think together, and even if we are alone – we create an imaginary symbolic interlocutor with whom we can manage our ideas and imitate communication. This idea was wittily reflected in Cast Away, in which Tom Hanks' character, alone on the uninhibited island, creates a symbolic being he names Wilson. Tuner and BKHTIN's ideas are related on many levels – as a human species we are in constant dialogue with ourselves – so dialogue is a channel for the productive process of action-reflection. In addition to being in dialogue with ourselves – and this is the way we think, as Bakhtin demonstrated, we are also in the middle of a sheet of paper and sharing experiences – therefore, creating bonds and identifying with each other. 'other – is a process of symbolic community construction. Story elements, narrative formulas, poetic compositions, and narrative traditions – all represent cultural resonances on human experience at different scales and forms of culture's self-reflection. Narrative traditions represent essential symbolic processes (Turner) of culture aimed at the symbolic construction of the community. Self-awareness is the main trait of consciousness, and therefore a reflection on one's actions is what makes us human. The more intense the action-reflection mechanism is at the level of individuals, families, groups and societies, the further the progress of mankind will be. Narration intensifies, not simply reflects, the action-reflection mechanism, efficiently accumulating and processing experience.