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…the issues themselves are rarely what they seem, no matter what pains are taken to verify the scoreboard.
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The short-term pain of letting a troublesome employee go outweighs the long-term gain of keeping the rest of your employees engaged.
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127 |
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It’s safe to say that performance reviews rank up there with root canals, though in this analogy, they’re probably just as painful for the dentist as for the patient.
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161 |
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Advice, after all, is just experience without the pain of having to learn those lessons yourself.
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Whenever others cause us inconvenience or pain, we have a natural tendency to suspect they have selfish motives coupled with malicious intentions.
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083 |
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…the impulse to avoid painful truths, just like the impulse to avoid pain itself, is a part of human nature.
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002 |
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Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.
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…your ability to reduce or eliminate the pain of the occasional loss by the thought that the policy that left you exposed to it will almost certainly be financially advantageous over the long run.
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340 |
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Decision makers know that they are prone to regret, and the anticipation of that painful emotion plays a part in many decisions.
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We spend much of our day anticipating, and trying to avoid, the emotional pains we inflict on ourselves.
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