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“A person of limited intelligence but high conscientiousness can make a valuable employee; a person of higher intelligence but very low conscientiousness is almost unemployable.” quote by Geoffrey Miller — Download Open image

““A person of limited intelligence but high conscientiousness can make a valuable employee; a person of higher intelligence but very low conscientiousness is almost unemployable.””

Geoffrey Miller

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If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

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These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

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“Thus the name of the game when it comes to evolution is not obtaining food or other resources: it is reproduction. Which came first,…

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Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in…

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“Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their…

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“Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we…

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“Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say…

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“David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social status, good…

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“You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce your contribution…

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“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not…

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“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid…

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If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

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“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.”

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within…

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You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right.

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John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When…

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The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

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The first major issue you need to consider when focusing on today's workers: You have to know what motivates them. If you think it's primarily money, think again. The biggest single change in the workforce of the entrepreneurial age is the list of priorities workers bring to the job. Except paycheck there are new considerations: impact, freedom, quality of life.…

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