Anecdotes will not be information. When you’re in search of information, listening to a narrative about what occurred to a good friend that one time shouldn’t crowd out your rational choice making.
However hope is actual.
When somebody you understand is dealing with a tough scenario, sharing a optimistic anecdote about that good friend who that one time made it by way of one thing similar to this–that’s useful. It’s not useful information, nevertheless it’s a helpful hook for hope. And hope amplifies our story of chance and would possibly make it simpler for us to get to the place we’re going.
Then again, sharing the anecdote about that point all the pieces blew up and failed–that’s not hopeful and that’s not useful.
Higher information is healthier information. However tales can (and will) be used as gasoline.
