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Adam M. Grant
“Polarization is reinforced by conformity: peripheral members fit in and gain status by following the lead of the most prototypical member of the group, who often holds the most intense views.”
Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions create your habits. Your habits form your character. Your character determines your destiny.”
Brad Willis, Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“No muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without consequence, change without aesthetics, age without values, life without effort, water without thirst, food without nourishment, love without sacrifice, power without fairness, facts without rigor, statistics without logic, mathematics without proof, teaching without experience, politeness without warmth, values without embodiment, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, friendship without investment, virtue without risk, probability without ergodicity, wealth without exposure, complication without depth, fluency without content, decision without asymmetry, science without skepticism, religion without tolerance, and, most of all: nothing without skin in the game.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Steven Pinker
“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

James Clavell
“Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.”
James Clavell, Shōgun

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Group for the discussion and listing of the books promoted in the excellent EconTalk podcast.
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Would you like to talk about language? Do you like reading about language? Then this is your group :)
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1139 Science and Inquiry — 4506 members — last activity Apr 24, 2026 11:08AM
This Group explores scientific topics. We have an active monthly book club, as well as discussions on a variety of topics including science in the new ...more
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