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Make things better by making better things.
In 2003, American singer and actress, Barbra Streisand, had got into it with the California Coastal Records Project of photographing her Malibu mansion. And while doing so, she inadvertently made the case go viral which caused more attention to the property. Which was what she didn’t want in the first place.
This later became known as the Streisand Effect. It tells us that people are curious. And when information is being held from them, now they have to know and become more motivated to get it out.
You can find examples of this all through time including in The Bible. Human beings have a difficult time not reaching for the marshmallows and not peaking behind the curtain. Being told no instinctually we then need to know why.
It isn’t ever enough of a reason to be told No. We need a story behind it. Plus our imagination gets out of hand quickly. When we are left to use our imagination, we ask, “What could she be hiding then?”