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The existence of stable preferences sounds pretty obvious, but for the past few decades, researchers in the area of behavioral decision theory have raised serious doubts about the existence of any such stable preferences.
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120 |
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Most things are harder in practice than they are in theory… because we’re not good at identifying what the price of success is, which prevents us from being able to pay it.
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158 |
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…you have to be able to see clearly what is in front of you and not allow yourself to be blinded by theory.
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215 |
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Theoretical beliefs are robust, and it takes much more than one embarrassing finding for established theories to be seriously questioned.
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356 |
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We can theorize all we want, but ultimately, we all learn best by doing.
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117 |
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The typical institution of today has an organization problem for which traditional concepts and theories are totally inadequate.
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1562 |
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When someone describes his job as pointless or worthless, he is necessarily operating within some sort of tacit theory of value: an idea of what would be a worthwhile occupation, and therefore what is not.
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196 |
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…the very existence of bullshit jobs raises certain problems for any labor theory of value.
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199 |
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We learn who we are in practice, not in theory.
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