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solving problems is hard.
Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger.
That just seems unnatural, an obvious violation of common sense—but then so did the idea of preventing a disease by injecting people with the very microbes that cause it.
But is winning the game your truest incentive?
most of us won’t admit to favoring the private benefit.
generally put their own interests ahead of others’.
This doesn’t make them bad people; it just ma...
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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
thinking like a Freak is simple enough that anyone can do it.
even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think,
It’s also tempting to run with a herd.
it is easier to fall in line with what your family and friends think than to find new family and friends!
quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.
When was the last time you sat for an hour of pure, unadulterated thinking?
You might occasionally say things that make other people squirm.
