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As a general rule – with lots and lots of exceptions… – children raised by single parents tend not to do as well in life as children who grow up with two parents.
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208 |
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You eat by the rules, which works fine as long as you stick to them. But once you deviate from the rules, as just about everyone does, you have nothing left to guide you.
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223 |
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…a universal rule of human nature, across all cultures, is that when somebody gives you something, they expect something in return. And they won’t give anything else until you pay them back.
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148 |
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The Black Swan rule is don’t treat others the way you want to be treated, treat them the way they need to be treated.
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198 |
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As a general rule, the age structure of achievement is being ratcheted upward due to specialization and the growth of knowledge.
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42 |
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Average is over. Some real-world interactions will become a lot simpler and call for conservatism and simple rule-following behavior, while others will become fare more complicated and extreme.
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74 |
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Ground rules for what’s appropriate can create invisible barriers when people from different culture work together.
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119 |
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Education upgrades mental models. Helping students master the cognitive maps… means these insights will become part of their decision rules in adulthood.
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156 |
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The [reciprocity] rule says that we should try to repay what another person has provided us.
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23 |
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Elected and appointed officials often see themselves as immune to the rules that apply to rest of us – parking regulations and the like.
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