Finding truth in stories

The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury their coins there. – Om Malik

Related to themes I’m currently reading in More, Everything, Forever, by Adam Becker. Stories are powerful, and we are often all too willing to let them mislead us.