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“Research reveals that the higher you score on an IQ test, the more likely you are to fall for stereotypes, because you’re faster at recognizing patterns. And recent experiments suggest that the smarter you are, the more you might struggle to update your beliefs.”
― Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
― Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
“My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had love.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“...Teller doesn’t buy it: “Taking good, smart risks is something that anyone can do, whether you’re on a team of 5 or in a company of 50,000.”18 Bezos would agree. “Given a ten percent chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time,” he wrote...”
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
“Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is a major proponent of this idea. “You’re not entitled to take a view,” he cautions, “unless and until you can argue better against that view than the smartest guy who holds that opposite view.”
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
“Be careful if you spend your days finding right answers by following a straight path to the light switch. If the drugs you’re developing were certain to work, if your client were certain to be acquitted in court, or if your Mars rover were certain to land, your jobs wouldn’t exist.”
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies for Giant Leaps in Work and Life
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies for Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Shannon’s 2024 Year in Books
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