"Busy people all make the same mistake: they……" — Sendhil Mullainathan
"Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity."
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16 Quotes by Sendhil Mullainathan
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The amount of resources we put in are disparate. We put billions of dollars into fuel-efficient technologies. How much are…
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The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
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It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be…
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I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry…
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Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a…
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Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do…
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Things that price at $4.99 sell very differently than things that price at $5.
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Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men…
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Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments,…
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Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task…
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We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next…
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
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