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…the best intuition takes huge amounts of data, harvesting our entire life experience, and filters it through the human brain.
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One of the worst results of system blindness occurs when leaders implement a strategy to solve a problem – but ignore the pertinent system dynamics.
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If our emotional circuitry… perceives an immediate threat it will flood us with hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which ready us to hit or run.
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…to meet the challenge of impending system collapse we need what amounts to a prothesis for the mind.
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…technological revolutions may save us from ourselves, letting us use resources in ways that protect the planet’s vital life-support systems – if we can find methods that don’t just create new problems or conceal old ones.
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Our cortical pattern detector seems designed to simplify complexity into manageable decision rules.
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Emotions, remember, guide our attention. And attention glides away from the unpleasant.
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Education upgrades mental models. Helping students master the cognitive maps… means these insights will become part of their decision rules in adulthood.
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Hours and hours of practice are necessary for great performance, but not sufficient.
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Smart practice always includes a feedback loop that lets you recognize errors and correct them…
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