Anecdotes aren’t information. In the event you’re on the lookout for information, listening to a narrative about what occurred to a buddy that one time shouldn’t crowd out your rational resolution making.
However hope is actual.
When somebody you recognize is going through a troublesome scenario, sharing a optimistic anecdote about that buddy who that one time made it by means of one thing identical to this–that’s useful. It’s not useful information, however 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.
Alternatively, sharing the anecdote about that point the whole lot 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 gas.
