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What Is Opportunity Cost

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Bad at Pattern Recognition

Bad at Pattern Recognition

We think we’re good at using pattern recognition to understand the world and other people. The problem is that humans are bad at pattern recognition. We think we’re good at it, but the reality is that we can’t tell the difference between a pattern that predicts an outcome and a pattern that simply reminds us of something and means nothing.

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Being Persuasive: Pacing

Being Persuasive: Pacing

Pacing involves matching the person you hope to persuade by agreeing with as much of their position as you can without lying, in order to build rapport and trust before taking on the disagreements.

Always talk first about the points on which you agree, to set the tone and establish yoursel...

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Coincidences

Sometimes coincidences tell you something useful. But 90 percent of the time they mislead you. Never be too confident about an opinion that depends solely on interpreting a coincidence.

On the whole, coincidences don’t tell you much about the world. That said, we feel like they do, and we o...

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How to Assess the Quality of Your Plan

How to Assess the Quality of Your Plan

If you have a strong opinion about a proposed plan but you have not compared it to the next best alternative, you are not part of a rational conversation.

Even if you think you have an awesome plan, you need to compare it to the next best alternative. If you simply state the pros of your pl...

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The World Is Always Falling Apart

The World Is Always Falling Apart

When you combine a human brain that is wired to notice problems with a press that is incentivized to present stories involving huge problems, you can easily start imagining that the world is falling apart in a variety of fatal ways. And that worldview might limit your ability to appreciate everyt...

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How to Be Less Susceptible to Biases

How to Be Less Susceptible to Biases

Always ask yourself if the opposite of your theory could be true. Doing so keeps you humble and less susceptible to bias until you get to the truth of the situation.

In your personal and professional life, ask, “What if the opposite is true?” If you genuinely consider this question, you wil...

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A Productive System for Judging Others

A Productive System for Judging Others

Judge people by how they respond to their mistakes. A good response involves taking responsibility for the mistake, giving a genuine apology, making amends (if possible), and not repeating the mistake.

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You Don’t Know What Other People Think

You Don’t Know What Other People Think

If your complaint about other people involves your belief that you can deduce their inner thoughts, you might be in a mental prison. We humans think we are good judges of what others are thinking. We are not. In fact, we are dreadful at it. But people being people, we generally believe we are goo...

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How to Stop Being Embarrassed

How to Stop Being Embarrassed

Put yourself in potentially embarrassing situations on a regular basis for practice. If you get embarrassed as planned, watch how one year later you are still alive. Maybe you even have a funny story because of it. 

Note how other people’s embarrassments mean little to you when you are an ...

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Incentives Influence Outcomes

Incentives Influence Outcomes

When money, reputation, power, ego, and complexity enter any field, it’s not rational to assume that you will see objective research and outcomes. Adams uses this idea to talk about the dynamics around climate science, which is highly politicized, very complex, and involves money and prestige.

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How to Pick Projects

How to Pick Projects

To learn and grow, it’s worth finding ways to explore new areas and interests. When you do this, structure your approach in a way that you’ll come out ahead no matter what matters. That means pursuing projects that will teach you useful skills, help you make valuable contacts, or learn to see the...

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Defining LoserThink

Defining LoserThink

Loserthink as unproductive ways of thinking. Even if you’re intelligent and well-informed, you can fall into the trap of loserthink. The book describes the many different ways in which loserthink can manifest and lead to suboptimal outcomes.

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The Raw Power Of The Press Is Used For Brain Manipulation

The Raw Power Of The Press Is Used For Brain Manipulation

The inevitable outcome of the press having a business model that rewards brain manipulation versus accuracy is what can be called political warming.

As the press becomes increasingly skilled at stimulating the emotion centres in our brains, one should expect the public to ...

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Being Right and Being Wrong

Being Right and Being Wrong

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.

We all walk around believing that we hold informed and accurate perspectives about life, people, and the state of the world. This is delusional thinking. You and I are both walking around with ideas about the world ...

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Systems Vs Goals

Systems Vs Goals

When it comes to your personal life, business life, and political opinions, it makes sense to favour systems over goals whenever that is practical. A goal gives you one way to win, whereas a system can surface lots of winning paths, some of which you never could have imagined.

Instead of th...

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Mental Prisons

Mental Prisons

Mental prisons are the forms of loserthink (unproductive thinking) that limit your ability to see the world clearly. And without seeing the world clearly, you won’t be able to act rationally.

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Loserthink is about unproductive ways of thinking. In it, writer Scott Adams will show you how to avoid Loserthink and to become a better and more rational thinker.

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No Good No Bad

Imagine a good thing that happened to you recently and a bad thing. Just imagine those recent incidents as just events, not good or bad in any way. When we stop judging, we are not burdened with emotions, and not chained to the world. Nothing is really good or bad, but in reality, is just our...

Interview Question: Setback At Work

Question: Tell me about a time when you experienced a setback at the office and how you handled it.

Answer: Showcase that you are resilient, mature and stable, instead of whining about your former bosses and colleagues. 

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  • We have to accept it’s something we’re all vulnerable to: it’s easy to look at other people we know that use logical fallacies. It’s much harder to recognize them in ourselves.
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