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That’s just the way we are: absolute-value challenged, cognitive misers who are addicted to comparisons.
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008 |
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A state of perfect information is of course theoretical… but in more and more areas of life, we’re starting to get closer to absolute values, which makes us less dependent on relative evaluations.
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010 |
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Once you can assess the absolute values of products, it becomes easier to determine if the value gap between products justifies the observed price differences.
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070 |
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…once you assess absolute value more precisely, you can actually determine if you get what you pay for.
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070 |
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A key prerequisite to finding absolute values is exposure to diverse sources and perspectives.
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166 |
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Even when the topic is factual, absolute values are less likely to be exposed when people only search for facts that support their prior beliefs.
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167 |
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This is how it often starts: Someone notices that they are in the dark, and they do something about it.
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174 |
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The traits that define great work require that you have something rare and valuable to offer in return… career capital.
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048 |
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…when it comes to decisions affecting your core career, money remains an effective judge of value.
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Our sensitivity to relative rather than absolute magnitudes is not limited to physical properties such as weight, brightness, or volume. It extends to subjective properties, such as value, goodness, and worth as well.
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