“TO OOCH IS TO ask, Why predict something we can test? Why guess when we can know?”
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
“researchers have found again and again that people act as though losses are from two to four times more painful than gains are pleasurable.”
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
“What’s the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“Compounding this preference for the status quo is another bias called loss aversion, which says that we find losses more painful than gains are pleasant.”
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
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