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Probability is not about odds but a belief in the existence of an alternative outcome.
Rational thinking has little to do with risk avoidance, most of it is about rationalizing one’s actions by fitting some logic to them.
People become leaders not because of the skills they possess but the superficial expressions they make on others (“charisma”).
KBB is used in the US for estimating the value of a used car before buying/selling it. While helping friends buy used cars, I felt that it always overvalued the car. I feel there is an anchoring effect in play here. A […]
The book is an interesting take on what it takes to attain a happy marriage and why only ~30% of us end up in happy marriages. The book is divided into three sections – what is love, why we fail in the game of love and what […]
The book talks about various psychological tactics used by compliance practitioners like salespeople, waiters, car dealers, and fundraisers to influence us into saying yes to something to which ideally we would have said no. The author went and took sales jobs as a car salesman and […]