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I believe that all of us continuously try to identify the line where we can benefit from dishonesty without damaging our own self-image.
Dan Ariely • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves
the consequences of not deciding.
Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational
He realized that humans have the innate ability to understand that others have minds with different desires, intentions, beliefs, and mental states, and the ability to form theories, with some degree of accuracy, about what those desires, intentions, beliefs, and mental states are. He called this ability theory of mind (TOM)
Michael Gazzaniga • Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
a large percentage—typically between 50 percent and 80 percent—fail to notice the switch and go on to give plausible-sounding reasons for choices they did not make.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
“We’re not machines. Our brain and our mind are fundamentally distinct, though they work together. The brain offers a third-person perspective; it’s the mind that provides a first-person experience.”
Lee Strobel • The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death
Instantly, whether the main story is true or false becomes far less important than whether it is useful. The author is neither your friend nor your enemy. It’s just a part of you, creating lines of thought.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Study after study shows that we tend to make up our minds intuitively, and only then prop up our positions with rational argumentation.