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If behavior is your outcome and science is your process, you are a behavioral scientist.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
We understand Peter as applying a very serious philosophical and indeed even moral test to people.
Tyler Cowen • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
big brains evolved for mastery of the social environment, not mastery of the physical environment.
Michael Morris • Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
“It’s not just about observing what a person does,” says Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University and the author of Predictably Irrational, among other books. “It’s trying to understand the reasons behind that.”
Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
That is, if you found any really extraordinary concentrations of success, you might want to see if you could identify concentrations of unusual characteristics that might be causal factors.”‡
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
we need to specify a production function.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
which on average increases with population size
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Dark horses evaluate how well their personal pattern of micro-motives matches up with the features of an opportunity.