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…[it is] complicated… to find out what people really think.
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Our unconscious thinking is, in one critical respect, no different from our conscious thinking: in both; we are able to develop our rapid decision making with training and experience.
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237 |
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If you are a boss, your success depends on staying in tune with how others think, feel, and react to you.
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244 |
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In decisions about whether to move forward, they do take into account what they’ve already spent. They do this because they irrationally think that the only way to recover or justify the costs is if they continue on.
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…once you step back and think about it, you realize that deciding not to change is itself a decision. At any moment, when you’re pursuing a goal, you are choosing to either stay on the path you’re on or change course. Sticking with the path is as much of a decision as choosing to quit.
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We need to start thinking about waste as a forward-looking problem, not a backward-looking one. That means realizing that spending another minute or another dollar or another bit of effort on something that is no longer worthwhile is the real waste.
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It is a bit counterintuitive to think about the future in terms of the past.
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…studies show that when we’re in an optimistic state of mind, we pay more attention, think more clearly, and learn faster. Hope primes our minds for real success.
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69 |
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…true happiness comes not from thinking more about ourselves, but rather from thinking less of ourselves…
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When you think about it, first versions of most things usually are [disappointing].
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