Some ideas to keep coming often
Behavioral Inevitability : “History never repeats itself; man always does.” – Voltaire
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Three Men Make a Tiger: People will believe anything if enough people tell them it’s true. It comes from a Chinese proverb that if one person tells you there’s a tiger roaming around your neighborhood, you can assume they’re lying. If two people tell you, you begin to wonder. If three say it’s true, you’re convinced there’s a tiger in your neighbor... See more
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Simplest explaination are often the best.
We map the world, ourselves included
Map is not the Territory
The map is not all the Territory - it is bound to leave out things on Territory
Maps are self reflexive - ie map maker may pretend to transcend the map but he is affecting the map making
Our ‘mind design principle’ for new and more successful mental habits is thus a simple one: because thinking is self-talk, talk and thought are linked. To change patterns of thinking, change patterns of talking.
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." - Pascal…but …..The reason has its heart of which the heart feels nothing…
System Justification Theory : Inefficient systems will be defended and maintained if they serve the needs of people who benefit from them – individual incentives can sustain systemic stupidity.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”