A classic advertisement once made the bold claim: “You can collect Social Security at any age.”

The power is in its specificity.

It promises a secret, a loophole, a piece of information that could change your reality. Vague claims are forgettable. A specific, provocative idea lodges in the mind.

When shaping a life story or a business history, finding these sharp, counter-intuitive truths is what separates a generic account from a book that gets passed from one person to the next.

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