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True objectivity can never be achieved—even the scientific objectivity of Holmes isn’t ever complete—but we need to understand just how far we stray in order to approximate a holistic view of any given situation.

Instead of focusing on not judging a book by its cover, it would be more useful to say we would be better off putting more effort into revising the judgments we will undoubtedly make.

we follow the “do something” principle, failure feels unimportant.

“Don’t hope for a life without problems,” the panda said. “There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.”

The prompt is clear, explicit, and specific, and it will result in a far better advertisement.

“It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science,” he once told an audience. Not only is that view patently false, but “it is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with

intention-action gap.

The sources of alpha can be segmented into four key areas:

Information: The advantage of possessing data that others do not.

Processing: The capacity to interpret and analyze data more effectively than others.

Modeling: The ability to design superior mathematical models that reflect market patterns and behaviors.

Speed: The advantage of acting quicker

(1) thinking ahead, or viewing the situation as just one moment on a larger, longer timeline and being able to identify it as just one point to get past in order to reach a better future point; (2) being specific and setting specific goals, or defining your end point as discretely as possible and pooling your attentional resources as specifically