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208 Quote(s) Found

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No matter where you live in an organization, you can start making better choices.

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…in the name of rationality, we make the wrong choice. The lesson is not to throw reason to the wind. It is to trust emotional information, even when we can’t articulate what our gut is telling us.

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People are capable of making enormous sacrifices when they have the agency to act on their own.

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…the first tactic for helping people find greater personal motivation is to avoid demotivating them by inviting choice rather than giving orders.

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The most powerful way to help people recognize, feel, and believe in the long-term implications of their choices is to get out of their way and let them experience them firsthand.

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Making use of things to enable behavior works best when you can alter the physical world in a way that eliminates human choice entirely.

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Even in today’s multitasking world, paying attention to everything is impossible, so we are constantly making unconscious choices about what to notice.

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…the evaluation of the risk depends on the choice of a measure – with the obvious possibility that the choice may have been guided by a preference for one outcome or another.

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Every significant choice we make in life comes with uncertainty – which is why students of decision making hope that some of the lessons learned in the model situation will be applicable to more interesting everyday problems.

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…overweighting is never observed in choice from experience, and underweighting is common.

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