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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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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and…
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People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up…
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These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having…
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Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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Crying can help, too. People are often afraid to cry because they are told that crying is for babies. Crying does not…
— James Howe
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It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that…
— Robert J. Shiller
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People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a…
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I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend…
— Andrew O'Hagan
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While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put…
— Dalai Lama
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The most successful people are often very intuitive. Consciously or unconsciously, they follow their gut feelings. Following intuition puts us in the…
— Shakti Gawain
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