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Priceless, Page 207

The first figure named in a negotiation silently shifts the other side’s expectations of what it will have to pay or accept.


Influencer, Page 207

Since you can’t know everything, it’s essential that you find people who can make up for your blind spots.


Never Eat Alone, Page 207

You have to believe in something… for people to believe in you.


Leaders Eat Last, Page 207

When the parties refuse to talk, refuse to listen, refuse to even meet, then the odds are high that the conflict will only continue.


The E-Myth Revisited, Page 207

What most people need… is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning.


Overwhelmed, Page 207

Research shows that encouraging kids to participate in activities they like is important, but that cramming more stuff onto the schedule is not better.


Average is Over, Page 207

Science is more of a cooperative endeavor than in earlier times, and that means the individual research contribution is smaller, even during periods of great progress.


Atomic Habits, Page 207

If you’re going to rely on punishment to change behavior, then the strength of the punishment must match the relative strength of the behavior it is trying to correct.


Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Page 207

Tragedy, so it’s said, is not the battle of right against wrong, it’s the inevitable clash of right against right.


Priceless, Page 207

Prices are not a unilateral expression of what someone wants; they are about what someone thinks he can get. That’s necessarily a guesstimate. There is abundant evidence that such guesses can be manipulated.