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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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For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right…
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Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.
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Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things
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In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With…
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There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
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You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
— Krishna Das
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Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances.
— William J. Clinton
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There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as…
— Jodi Picoult
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Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
— James Surowiecki
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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker…
— Neal Stephenson
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Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can…
— P D Ouspensky
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The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of…
— Joanne Harris
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