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This book is simply hard to read, maybe because I am not used to UK humor. But I fundamentally disagrees with the authors in a few points. Yes, some jobs, by his definition, are simply bullshits, they serve no other purpose than to make the organizat
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“In forager societies, political dominance generally resides with the person possessing the best social skills rather than the most developed musculature.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The Mississippi Bubble was one of history’s most spectacular financial crashes. The royal French financial system never recuperated fully from the blow. The way in which the Mississippi Company used its political clout to manipulate share prices and fuel the buying frenzy caused the public to lose faith in the French banking system and in the financial wisdom of the French king”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“A similar thing happens when we make judgments about our abilities relative to others. All other things being equal, we rate our ability on a given task as above average, but we rate other people’s ability at the same task at or below average (Suls, Lemosk, & Stewart, 2002; Kruganski & Mayselers, 1990).”
― Ten Interesting Things about Human Behavior
― Ten Interesting Things about Human Behavior
“Mr. Roark, we’re alone here. Why don’t you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us.” “But I don’t think of you.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“If Darwin had never been born, for example, we’d today attribute the theory of evolution to Alfred Russel Wallace, who came up with the idea of evolution via natural selection independently of Darwin and just a few years later. But if the European powers had not financed geographical, zoological and botanical research around the world, neither Darwin nor Wallace would have had the necessary”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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