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“The most important lesson to learn about devil’s advocacy isn’t the need for a formal contrarian position; it’s the need to interpret criticism as a noble function.”
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
“Sometimes we think we’re gathering information when we’re actually fishing for support.”
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
― Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
“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
“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
“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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