“It all starts with the universally applicable premise that people want to be understood and accepted. Listening is the cheapest, yet most effective concession we can make to get there. By listening intensely, a negotiator demonstrates empathy and shows a sincere desire to better understand what the other side is experiencing.”
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
“Negotiation as you’ll learn it here is nothing more than communication with results. Getting what you want out of life is all about getting what you want from and with other people.”
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
“The Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing (1950), was designed to provide a satisfactory operational definition of intelligence. Acomputerpasses thetestifahumaninterrogator, after posing some written questions, cannot tell whether the written responses come from a person orfromacomputer.”
― Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
― Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
“But allow me to let you in on a secret: Life is negotiation. The majority of the interactions we have at work and at home are negotiations that boil down to the expression of a simple, animalistic urge: I want.”
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
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