Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Stories Are Hard to Share Because They Make Us Vulnerable

1 May 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang explores why people avoid sharing personal stories. Storytelling demands vulnerability, exposing mishaps and emotions. In professional settings, social proof and the preference for data over narrative make people reluctant to stand out.

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But what is it about stories that make it hard for people to actually share them? Because I see a lot of people being, and I always try and play the devil's advocate here. I see a lot of people not being able to fully do that. They feel data is where it lies, or it's the numbers game, at least in the corporate world. So where, like, yeah, why don't people more naturally tell stories even when we've grown up with them?
Yeah, yeah, well, I think part of it is, you know, a lot of stories require some level of vulnerability. To be shown. You know, like the story of me, you know, driving around in my car and catching my friend's finger in the door. I mean, it sort of gives some sort of impression of the person. So there's that. The other thing too is it's to do with social proof. In other words, what is everyone else doing around here, right?