Rama

“It’s a common belief that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s triggering a knee-jerk emotional response to something that happened long ago.”
― Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

“if we want to understand why people do what they do, we must understand the incentives that they face, and hence their preference for one outcome versus another. When someone does something that seems strange or puzzling to us, rather than writing them off as crazy or irrational, we should instead seek to analyze their situation in hopes of finding a rational incentive.”
― Duncan J. Watts, Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer

“conventional thinking gives you conventional results.”
― Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

“Common sense, in other words, is not so much a worldview as a grab bag of logically inconsistent, often contradictory beliefs, each of which seems right at the time but carries no guarantee of being right any other time.”
― Duncan J. Watts, Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer