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The historical significance of urban centers
The impact of cultural and technological advances
The role of urban centers in shaping society
Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamp post; more for support than illumination.
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The next step in developing new perspectives is solving our confirmation bias, our tendency to choose information that confirms our already existing beliefs.
We search only for evidence that supports our ideas and we see only what we are able to comprehend.
This is why overcoming conf...
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Before Nicolaus Copernicus, humans thought that all celestial objects revolved around the Earth, what is known as geocentrism.
With great opposition from the Catholic church, his theory, called heliocentrism, propo...
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More than often, the major barrier to new perspectives is not intellectual, but emotional.
Even though we have access to so much information, nobody wants to bear the emotional endeavour that is required in challenging your own set of beliefs.
Imagine how Copernicus must have felt bef...
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Shift your vantage point.
His ideas prove how much not unhinged his thinking was by the others.
The accepted truth at the time was that we are at the center of the universe. People were attaching special importance to themselves and this prevented them from viewing things from other ...
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One of the most powerful approaches to overcome cognitive bias is to seek out disconfirming evidence. Understand how opposing people in an argument arrived at that conclusion and find out why they believe what they do.
Always ask yourself what confirmations can you seek out in order to chan...
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You can use a customer service video instead of investing a lot of money to hire more support staff. It can be a long-term investment since the queries or issues that arise from time to time may be identical.
You can post the video on your FAQ page so people can easily ac...
Lately I had an iron lamp placed by the side of my household gods; hearing a noise at the door, I ran down, and found that the lamp had been carried off. I reflected that he who had taken the lamp had done nothing strange. What then? Tomorrow, I said, you will find ...
Use humor in your speech, but without telling a joke. You will seem more likeable, and people are more willing to do business with or support someone they like.
For example, Sir Ken Robinson\ makes humorous, often self-deprecating, observations about his chosen field, education._
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