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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts…
— Mae Jemison
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Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
— Jane McGonigal
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Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.
— Jean Lorrain
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The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
— Mae Jemison
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No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries…
— Emily St. John Mandel
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Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from…
— Waverley Root
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Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part…
— Mae Jemison
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As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away.…
— James Surowiecki
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He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one…
— William Faulkner
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We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the…
— Pittacus Lore
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing…
— William Faulkner
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I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to…
— Sarah Monette
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