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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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We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent…
— Mary Robinson
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What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution…
— Samantha Morton
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The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.
— George du Maurier
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Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.
— Emanuel Celler
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And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old…
— Ernest Gaines
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born…
— Mac Davis
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Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make…
— Dan Millman
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Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their…
— Ron Chernow
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The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that…
— William A. Dembski
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Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and…
— Clifford Allbutt
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Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number…
— Vladimir Lenin
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