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Habits are mental shortcuts learned from experience.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller
people’s identity, or their self-understanding, can greatly matter.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Illusions of Knowing
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
For example, when Thaler asked people whether they would drive twenty minutes out of their way to save five dollars on a fifteen-dollar calculator, 68 percent of respondents said yes. However, when he asked people whether they would drive twenty minutes out of their way to save five dollars on a $125 leather jacket, only 29 percent said they would.
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conscientiousness and organization that seemed to come naturally to my middle-class classmates.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
The most interesting thinkers in these fields—the “first-rate intelligences”—have been the ones best able to “flicker” between alternative perspectives on the same problem, paying attention to the objective and subjective while recognizing that neither can be collapsed into the other.