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“Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“To make better decisions, use the WRAP process: Widen Your Options. Reality-Test Your Assumptions. Attain Distance Before Deciding. Prepare to Be Wrong.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“The most important lesson to learn about devil’s advocacy isn’t the need for a formal contrarian position; it’s the need to interpret criticism as a noble function.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“Sometimes we think we’re gathering information when we’re actually fishing for support.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“TO OOCH IS TO ask, Why predict something we can test? Why guess when we can know?”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“Compounding this preference for the status quo is another bias called loss aversion, which says that we find losses more painful than gains are pleasant.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“researchers have found again and again that people act as though losses are from two to four times more painful than gains are pleasurable.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“The researchers have found, in essence, that our advice to others tends to hinge on the single most important factor, while our own thinking flits among many variables. When we think of our friends, we see the forest. When we think of ourselves, we get stuck in the trees.§”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“The advice we give others, then, has two big advantages: It naturally prioritizes the most important factors in the decision, and it downplays short-term emotions.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“What would I tell my best friend to do in this situation?”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“The problem is that urgencies—the most vivid and immediate circumstances—will always hog our spotlight.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“prospective hindsight” to work backward from a certain future—they are better at generating explanations for why the event might happen.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“a technique called “failure mode and effect analysis” (FMEA), a precursor to the premortem that has been used for decades in the military and government.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“Deadlines focus our mental spotlight on a choice. They grab us by the collar and say, If you’re gonna do this, you have to do it now.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“Seeking out one more option. Finding someone else who’s solved our problem. Asking, “What would have to be true for you to be right?” Ooching as a way to dampen politics. Making big decisions based on core priorities. Running premortems and preparades. Laying down tripwires. Using these techniques will improve the results of your group decisions.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

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― Anonymous

“Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you’ve made the best decision that you could.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“Studies of the elderly show that people regret not what they did but what they didn’t do.”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

“Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.”
― Anonymous

“Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.”
― Anonymous

“and many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.”
― Anonymous

“One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren’t actual decisions, but habits.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of money] involved." A”
― Anonymous

“To make sure your strings go from PHP to MySQL as UTF-8, make sure your database and tables are all set to the utf8mb4 character set and collation, and that you use the utf8mb4 character set in the PDO connection string.”
― Anonymous

“Spitz’s shocking research revealed that human affection may be even more critical to survival than food and shelter or was at least of equal importance in our hierarchy of needs.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“Beecher Stowe was propelled into the public spotlight in 1852, when she published Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a vibrant and moving story that was effectively a political tract against slavery.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“Aristotle was especially aware of the importance of this benevolent form of self-love, when he wrote, “All friendly feelings for others are an extension of man’s feelings for himself.”54”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“According to social scientist Jeremy Rifkin, online culture may be leading us toward a truly empathic civilization. “New developments in internet connections,” he argues, make it “possible to imagine a paradigmatic shift in human thought and a tipping point in global consciousness in less than a generation. . . . The potential to experience empathic sensibility and to take it to a global level is now within reach.”30”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion