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When the evidence is right in front of you, you’re less likely to lie to yourself.
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…evidence is overwhelming that… an opportunity is much more likely than a threat or a prediction of doom to increase [people’s] energy level to want to do something new.
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119 |
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…it is very difficult to look at data and evidence from the field and come to any other conclusion than that our world will continue to accelerate, quite possibly at an increased rate.
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When adults have the confidence to acknowledge what they don’t know, they pay more attention to how strong evidence is and spend more time reading material that contradicts their opinions.
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48 |
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Plenty of evidence suggests that confidence is just as often the result of progress as the cause of it.
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Our opinions can become so sacred that we grow hostile to the mere thought of being wrong, and the totalitarian ego leaps in to silence counterarguments, squash contrary evidence, and close the door on learning.
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In a heated argument, you can always stop and ask, ‘What evidence would change your mind?’ If the answer is ‘nothing,’ then there’s no point in continuing the debate. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it think.
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…there’s evidence that people are more interested in hiring candidates who acknowledge legitimate weaknesses as opposed to bragging or humblebragging.
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119 |
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Evidence shows that if false scientific beliefs aren’t addressed in elementary school, they become harder to change later.
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…evidence [shows] that, across a wide range of industries, grades are not a strong predictor of job performance.
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