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You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value…

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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…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing… — Jonathan Carroll
Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and… — Tom Udall
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You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least… — James Surowiecki
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The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because… — Donald Miller
It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three… — MaryJanice Davidson
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges
Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you. — Billy Mays
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Don't you hate buying new clothes and having to wait to wear it because you don't have any plans anytime soon — Emanuel Sebastiao
Wilson: Did you know your phone is dead? Do you ever recharge the batteries? House: They recharge? I just keep buying new… — House MD

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