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A vision is an open invitation and an inspiration for people to create ideas and events that correlate with its definitional framework.
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The most important economic events of the future… will be unprecedented events. Their unprecedented nature means we won’t be prepared for them, which is part of what makes them so impactful.
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…we make sense of chaotic changes by infusing events with special meaning and weaving them into coherent stories about who we are becoming.
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Getting fired or receiving a bad performance review are classic unfreezing events. Events like these defy the view of ourselves as competent professionals; they can make us realize we are not in the driver’s seat…
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…we learn about ourselves by examining what we do when events forced our hand…
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…our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.
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The probability of a rare event is most likely to be overestimated when the alternative is not fully specified.
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The bias toward overestimation and overweighting of salient events is not an absolute rule, but it is large and robust.
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…the process by which objects and events recruit their own context of comparison can lead to incoherent choices on serious matters.
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A story is about significant events and memorable moments, not about time passing.
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