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Steven H. Strogatz
“This synergistic character of nonlinear systems is precisely what makes them so difficult to analyze. They can’t be taken apart. The whole system has to be examined all at once, as a coherent entity. As we’ve seen earlier, this necessity for global thinking is the greatest challenge in understanding how large systems of oscillators can spontaneously synchronize themselves. More generally, all problems about self-organization are fundamentally nonlinear. So the study of sync has always been entwined with the study of nonlinearity.”
Steven H. Strogatz, Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life

Robert H. Lustig
“(1) reward is not contentment, and pleasure is not happiness; (2) reward is dopamine, and contentment is serotonin; (3) chronic excess reward interferes with contentment; (4) business has conflated pleasure with happiness consciously and with clear-cut intent, specifically to get you to buy its junk or engage in hedonic behaviors favorable to industry; (5) government has passed legislation to make it easier to buy that junk or make easier access to engage in those behaviors to drive profit and GDP, and the Supreme Court has justified and supported these practices; and (6) buying that junk or engaging in those behaviors long-term and without thought can leave you and society fat, sick, stupid, broke, addicted, depressed, and most decidedly unhappy.”
Robert H. Lustig, The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

Steven H. Strogatz
“Whenever the whole is different from the sum of the parts—whenever there’s cooperation or competition going on—the governing equations must be nonlinear.”
Steven H. Strogatz, Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life

Sebastian Junger
“three pillars of self-determination—autonomy, competence, and community”
Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Rory Sutherland
“And in reality ‘context’ is often the most important thing in determining how people think, behave and act:”
Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

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