The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by Michael Lewis
Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. “Amos thought people paid an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment,” said his friend Avishai Margalit, “and he himself decided very early on it was not worth it.”
Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.
“Amos thought people paid an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment,” said his friend Avishai Margalit, “and he himself decided very early on it was not worth it.”
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
For most people, the happiness involved in receiving a desirable object is smaller than the unhappiness involved in losing the same object.”
“The nice thing about things that are urgent,” he liked to say, “is that if you wait long enough they aren’t urgent anymore.”
"Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification."
"“Amos thought people paid an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment,” said his friend Avishai Margalit, “and he himself decided very early on it was not worth it.”"
"When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens."
"For most people, the happiness involved in receiving a desirable object is smaller than the unhappiness involved in losing the same object.”"
"“The nice thing about things that are urgent,” he liked to say, “is that if you wait long enough they aren’t urgent anymore.”"
"When choosing between sure things and gambles, people’s desire to avoid loss exceeded their desire to secure gain."
"He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it."
- →People did not choose between things. They chose between descriptions of things.
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