3 is the magic number — Gordon Brander
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When storytelling, 3 is the minimum number of samples necessary to trigger pattern recognition. 1 is all by itself, 2 might be a coincidence, but 3 is a pattern. Also intuition is pattern recognition. © Gordon Brander, 2023. @gordonbrander. Published with Lettersmith.
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