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What this book knows

Four predictable biases sabotage every decision; naming them gives you a process to override them.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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mind-and-cognition

Kahneman called this tendency 'what you see is all there is'—the spotlight illuminates one patch while everything offstage stays dark.
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Grove said of 1984: 'We worked hard without a clear notion of how things were ever going to get better. We had lost our bearings.'
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Over half the one-at-a-time designers felt the feedback was critical of them personally; none of the simultaneous designers did.
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self-and-identity

'What use could this company make of an electrical toy?'—Western Union rejecting Bell's telephone patent in 1876.
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Smithburg confessed: 'We should have had a couple of people arguing the no side'—but no one inside Quaker argued against the acquisition.
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A salesman's reframe—'Sony and $300 of albums'—broke an hour of frozen indecision in sixty seconds.
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Illuminates

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