psychology

Learning of historical precedent as well matters little, since we don’t learn in the same way from description as we do from experience. It’s something known as the description-experience gap.

‘I am convinced now that nothing good is accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and making yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion,’

The authority of father and mother lost its economic base through the growing individualism of industry.

“Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.”

Intensity matching yields predictions that are as extreme as the evidence on which they are based, leading people to give the same answer to two quite different questions:

“began to inspire greater confidence not because they could suddenly cure infectious diseases, but because they seemed better able to explain and prevent them.”

Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability to integrate broadly.

“Hear a piece of information and three days later you’ll remember 10 percent of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65 percent.”

The use of AI, machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence are creating the perception that understanding the causal mechanics of a system or how the world actually works doesn’t matter because all I need to have is a marginal degree of statistical significance in my actions to make A TON of money.