You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
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Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
Data is very important, but you have to be good at reading the data in an emotional way. If you look at a selling report, there's an emotional trend to what's selling.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
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