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“thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics, and common fallacies of thought, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just to cope with reality.”
― You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
― You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
“Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
― How to Win Friends and Influence People
― How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. —DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer Prize–winning American humorist”
― The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
― The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
“The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: “I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
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