After Rebbe Nachman gave this lesson he said: I say 3 things contrary to the world (I’m paraphrasing)

1. People say that the tzadik needs no money/wealth, but I say that the Tzadik needs all the wealth in the world.
2. The world says that telling tales of ancient times/sippurey maasiot makes people sleep, but I say that it wakes people up.
3. The world says that sippurey maasiot make women barren, but I say it gives barren women the ability to give birth.

Rabeinu in this extremely deep lesson talks about many different ideas: coming to certain perceptions in the Torah only through wealth, bringing fear into revelation, lengthening one’s days by adding holiness, having a pure breath, guarding the moisture of the body, how to make barren women have children, restoring one’s face through story tales of recent years and most importantly story tales of ancient times, guarding oneself from unworthy students, restoring speech, etc…