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Don’t believe everything you think.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
When it comes to seeing what is—that is, understanding reality—we can follow Charles Darwin’s advice to notice things “which easily escape attention,” and ask why things happened.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Once people do not trust themselves, they are subject to easy manipulation.
Joel Kramer • The Guru Papers
The link between intentional deception and cognitive limitations was made five centuries ago by Machiavelli. “Men are so simple and so ready to follow the needs of the moment,” he wrote, “that the deceiver will always find someone to deceive.”
Timur Kuran • Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
This raises an interesting question: Why is it always the other person who is naive or selfish or irrational or controlling?
Bruce Patton • Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Neural Darwinism
David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind
Buyers today are savvy, deeply skeptical of advertising hype, and more concerned with finding and expressing their individuality than conforming to societal norms.
Carol S. Pearson • The Hero and the Outlaw
The new breed of consumer is not as trusting, as loyal, or as malleable as those of the past.
Carol S. Pearson • The Hero and the Outlaw
And Sukarno was not surprised—he had known all along that Adams would do a far better job with his memoirs than any “serious” journalist.