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…as one British study found, multitasking makes you stupid – dumber than getting stoned.
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When a group does interdependent work, rotten apples drag down and infect everyone else. Unfortunately, grumpiness, nastiness, laziness, and stupidity are remarkably contagious.
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…collective stupidity makes people feel far better than when they do the same, equally moronic things on their own.
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Slow is boring. Slow is slippery. Slow is a synonym for stupid. Slow loses your attention.
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…it is better to be primitive than to be sophisticated, and better to be stupid than to be smart.
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The speed and interconnected nature of the new world in which we function have rendered it too stupid and slow to survive the onslaught of predators.
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As fallible human beings, all of us share the impulse to justify ourselves and avoid taking responsibility for actions that turn out to be harmful, immoral, or stupid.
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[Americans] think that making mistakes means they are stupid. That belief is precisely what keeps them from learning from their mistakes.
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So embedded is the link between mistakes and stupidity in American culture that it can be shocking to learn that not all cultures share it.
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