• Gordon Brander
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    3 is the magic number

    Updated August 29, 2018

    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.

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