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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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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
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You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter…
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Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.
— H. L. Mencken
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I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below…
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is…
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK…
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When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of…
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate…
— Jay Leno
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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a…
— Michael Moore
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Got rejected for a job as a car salesman. Apparently A professional in fake laughing and bullshit wasn't what they were looking…
— Nikhil Saluja
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