Anecdotes and Stories

Behind every quote is an anecdote. Behind every anecdote is a story.

It is tempting to stop at the quote, to grab the summary and run.

The real wisdom is what is behind that quote. What messy context gave birth to this clean and polished insight.

Summaries are like photos from interesting places on a friends social media. They should spark the need to go deeper to get to those “hmm”-moments that makes us pause where something resonates with or challenges us.

Bullet points might be efficient, but the real nuggets of gold is in the margins of the stories.