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Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is…
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:…
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Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea…
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Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
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If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make…
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That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break…
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We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay…
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The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how…
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When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget…
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There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.
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The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their…
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When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we…
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,…
— Ralph Bunche
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:…
— Dan Ariely
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For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more…
— Walter Lippmann
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When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
— Jules de Goncourt
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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone…
— Gloria Steinem
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Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their…
— Hilary Mantel
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