The ability to see the big picture is so important. Not that details are unimportant. I am borderline anal-retentive myself, so I can appreciate attention to detail. But details don’t exist in a vacuum. They are part of a larger matrix, an overall purpose. Losing sight of the purpose cripples one’s ability to distinguish between important details and mere minutiae.
In my line of work, being persuasive is critical. Persuasion is very much about storytelling. Every good story must have a plot. A bunch of dialogue randomly thrown together just wouldn’t do. Lately, I have a client who keeps honing in on the details of her situation. Remember the plot, I tell her, remember the plot.
