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People should be allowed to find the kinds of jobs…
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266 |
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The fear of being judged as weak or naïve prevents many people from operating like givers at work.
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22 |
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Professional relationships disintegrate when entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and executives feel…
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82 |
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Many experiments… show that teacher expectations are especially important for improving the grades and intelligence test scores of low-achieving students…
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99 |
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…interest is what drives people to invest their time and energy in developing particular skills and bases of knowledge.
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104 |
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It turns out that motivation is the reason that people develop talent in the first place.
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104 |
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In roles as leaders and mentors, givers resist the temptation to search for talent first. By recognizing that anyone can be a bloomer, givers focus their attention on motivation.
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105 |
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It turns out that givers are the least vulnerable to the mistake of overinvesting in people…
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112 |
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…once people make an initial investment of time, energy, or resources, when it goes sour, they’re at risk for increasing their investment.
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113 |
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When an investment doesn’t pay off, even if the expected value is negative, we invest more.
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