The narrative fallacy leads us to see events as stories, with logical chains of cause and effect. Stories help us make sense of the world.
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship upon them.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. By: Franklin D. Roosevelt