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“There is no more miserable human being than one…for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional
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“Economists write many scholarly articles, usually starting with the assumption that people act rationally, which in reality excludes everyone except those with certain rare brain disorders.”
― Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change
― Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw out the bad ones.”
― Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change
― Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change
“That’s when I push myself, and try harder to be open to the possibility that I’m mistaken. Why do I hold that belief? Are there those who don’t? Do I respect them, or at least some of them? Why might they have come to a different conclusion? I try to recall times in the past when I was wrong about something, even though I’d been confident of being right. The bigger the mistake, the better. The process helps me to understand that the mental adjustment to a new thought paradigm isn’t as easy as hindsight always makes it seem.”
― Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change
― Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change
Nat’s 2025 Year in Books
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