Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.

Most people are too busy to rethink the way they think-or to even spend much time thinking at all.

When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs-even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.

The best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India is to pay a bounty on their scalps.

But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they’re hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours.

In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do.

Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren’t serious.

If you really want to persuade someone who doesn’t wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story.

“I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Few people think more than two or three times a year,” Shaw reportedly said.

This doesn’t make them bad people it just makes them human.

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others’.

If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don’t know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don’t even know the right question.But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student’s performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

One thing we’ve learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.We heartily disagree! For most people, it is much harder to say I don’t know. It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you.When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

Solving a problem is hard enough it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

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Think like a freak by steven d levitt