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We all know that performance depends on more than ability—it’s also a function of degree of difficulty.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
When everyone is either a superior or a subordinate, the hierarchy constantly highlights differences in status.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
Humans can also be heavily motivated by uncertainty.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
social status can be perceived quickly and intuitively with very little information.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
am also an expert in the psychology of bias.
Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
social scientist,
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
men who can easily be goaded into action even against their better judgment, and women who are much more calculating and vengeful.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Financial incentives are generally easy to spot, but nonfinancial incentives, like reputation or fairness, are less obvious yet still important in driving decisions.