Anecdotes usually are not information. If you happen toβre in search of information, listening to a narrative about what occurred to a pal that one time shouldnβt crowd out your rational determination making.
However hope is actual.
When somebody you already know is dealing with a tough scenario, sharing a constructive anecdote about that pal who that one time made it by one thing similar to thisβthatβs useful. Itβs not useful information, nevertheless itβs a helpful hook for hope. And hope amplifies our story of risk and may make it simpler for us to get to the place weβre going.
Then again, sharing the anecdote about that point every little thing blew up and failedβthatβs not hopeful and thatβs not useful.
Higher information is healthier information. However tales can (and may) be used as gas.
