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Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
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Sam Sommers1,366 ratings, 3.77 average rating, 144 reviews
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“...incompetence is context specific.”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
“The assumption underlying this strategic color blindness is if I don’t even notice race, then I can’t be a racist.”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
“The point is, we don’t just group people into categories and leave things at that. Social categories lead to generalizations, expectations, and particular trains of thought, all of which are shaped as well as reflected by the broader cultural messages around us.”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
“It’s not accurate knowledge about the self that allows peace of mind; it’s the bit of self-deception that helps us bounce back from setback and trudge on through failure.”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
“Often, it’s not accurate knowledge about the self that allows peace of mind; it’s the bit of self-deception that helps us bounce back from setback and trudge on through failure.
(Page 115).”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
(Page 115).”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
“unfailingly accurate and unfiltered self-perception is linked to depression.”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
“The norms of conversation dictate that we include in our statements that information which we deem relevant to the point we’re seeking to make.”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
“Crowds diffuse responsibility.”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
“Precisely because situations are difficult to see, effort is required to recognize their influence. So we’re particularly likely to stick to internal explanations for behavior when we don’t have the mental energy to consider the alternatives.”
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
― Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
