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Chapter

1, 2 & 3QUOTES

#1

Sometimes in life, goingstraight up the middle is the

boldest move of all.

#2

If the consequences of pretending toknow can be so damaging, why do

people keep doing it? That’s easy: inmost cases, the cost of saying “I

don’t know” is higher than the costof being wrong—at least for the

individual.

#3

When it comes to solvingproblems, one of the best waysto start is by putting away your

moral compass.

#4

“Everyone’s entitled to theirown opinion but not to their

own facts.”- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#5

A barrier to thinking likea Freak is that most

people are too busy torethink the way they

think—or to even spendmuch time thinking at

all.

#6

The miracle of a goodexperiment is that in onesimple cut, you caneliminate all thecomplexity that makes itso hard to determinecause and effect.

#7

The impulse to investigatecan only be set free if youstop pretending to knowanswers that you don’t.

#8

There is nothing like thesheer power of numbers to

scrub away layers ofconfusion and

contradiction, especiallywith emotional, hot-button

topics.

#9

Incentives are the cornerstone ofmodern life. And understanding

them—or, often, deciphering them—is the key to understanding aproblem, and how it might be

solved.

#10

Whatever problem you’re trying tosolve, make sure you’re not justattacking the noisy part of the

problem that happens to captureyour attention... it’s incredibly

important to properly define theproblem—or, better yet, redefine

the problem.

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