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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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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are…
— Madame de Stael
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…
— Edward Hoagland
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I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and…
— Carl B. Pratt
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The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my…
— Carl Jung
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
— Aristotle
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What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
— Bill Delahunt
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It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less…
— Betty Eadie
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The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while…
— Unknown Author
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It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered…
— Anna Quindlen
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Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly,…
— Barry Green
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