But trust must rest upon rational reasons—and simply liking someone is not one of them. A sad fact of life is that most people lose more to those they love than to everybody else put together. And it’s not because the person they love is
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“Knowledge is literally prediction,” said Morey. “Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally everything you do you’re trying to predict the right thing. Most people just do it subconsciously.” A”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Doveryai no Proveryai: Trust, but verify.”
― Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction
― Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction

“If it doesn’t happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn’t there to begin with.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball

“Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
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