“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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