Academia Quote by Richard Thaler

“Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.”

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There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

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For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.

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