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…we live simultaneously in two different worlds – one where social norms prevail, and the other where market norms make the rules.
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068 |
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…just thinking about money makes us behave as most economists believe we behave – and less like the social animals we are in our daily lives.
|
075 |
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There are social rewards that strongly motivate behavior – and one of the least used in corporate life is the encouragement of social rewards and reputation.
|
081 |
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We need to explore the two sides of ourselves; we need to see how the gap between the hot and cold states benefits our lives, and where it leads us astray.
|
104 |
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Ownership pervades our lives and, in a strange way, shapes many of the things we do.
|
133 |
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…expectations can influence nearly every aspect of our life.
|
164 |
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Indeed, it can be rather depressing to realize that we all continually make irrational decisions in our personal, professional, and social lives.
|
240 |
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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.
|
010 |
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It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.
|
084 |
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When no one cares what you do with your working life, you probably don’t have enough career capital to do anything interesting.
|
130 |
