David McRaney Quotes

You and everyone else come into the world preloaded with these pesky and completely wrong ways of seeing things, and you rarely notice them.

You can maintain a giant number of weak ties to people on Facebook, Twitter, and whatever comes next, much like you can in a giant company. Strong ties, however, require constant grooming. People who...

You sold out long ago in one way or another. The specifics of who you sell to and how much you make—those are only details.

Narrative bias—a bias in that when given the option, you prefer to give and receive information in narrative format.

Politicians who bring out charts and graphs tend to fail, and those who use anecdotes tend to win. Stories make sense on an emotional level, so anything that conjures fear, empathy, or pride will trum...

A bias is a tendency to think in one way when other options are just as good, if not better.

Anosognosia sufferers are paralyzed but won’t admit it. They tell their doctors and loved ones they have severe arthritis or need to watch their weight if asked to move their incapacitated arm to take...

Apophenia isn’t always a bad thing. You need a sense of meaning to get out of bed, to push forward against the grain. Just remember that meaning comes only from within. Your mind is preorganized to no...

Artık firmalar, barlara ve kulüplere gidip alt kültürlerin nelerden hoşlandığını gözlemlemeleri için insanları işe alıyorlar ve buldukları şeyler daha popüler olurken alışveriş merkezlerinin vitrinler...

Behaviors create attitudes.

Evrimsel olarak daima kesin olan bahsi oynamak mantıklıdır; atalarınızın emekliliği ya da kalp krizini düşünmesi gerekmiyordu. Beyniniz torunlarınızla tanışmanın muhtemel olmadığı bir dünyada evrimleş...

Expensive wine is like anything else that is expensive: The expectation it will taste better actually makes it taste better.

If a politician can come across as likable—as nice, genuine, and friendly—she’s won most of her votes already. That initial appraisal will spread and elevate all other appraisals. Gaffes will be forgi...

If you were to shuffle a deck and draw out ten cards, the chances of the sequence you drew coming up are in the trillions, no matter what the cards are. If you drew out an ordered suit, it would be as...

Ignorance of the halo effect can easily set in motion a self-fulfilling prophecy in which attitude changes behavior, which then loops back around over and over for the persons both giving and receivin...

In experiments at Baylor University where people were given Coke and Pepsi in unmarked cups and then hooked up to a brain scanner, the device clearly showed a certain number of them preferred Pepsi wh...

People who use the number of friends they have on Facebook as a metric of their social standing are fooling themselves. You can share videos of fainting goats with hundreds of acquaintances and thousa...

Power breeds certainty, and certainty has no clout against the unpredictable, whether you are playing poker or running a country.

Scientists tell us we all come from monkeys, and that’s why I homeschool, this person is using a straw man, because science doesn’t say we all come from monkeys.