The next time you’re in a real jam, facing an important question that you just can’t answer, go ahead and make up something—and everyone will believe you, because you’re the guy who all those other ti...
The next time you encounter such a barrier, imposed by people who lack your imagination and drive and creativity, think hard about ignoring it. Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much hard...
The modern world demands that we all think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally; that we think from a different angle, with a different set of muscles, with a different set of exp...
The market was particularly strong in Chicago, which had more than a thousand known brothels.
The fear created by commercial experts may not quite rival the fear created by terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan, but the principle is the same.
The fact is that solving problems is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it.
The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get married.
The best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency.
The absurdly talented George Bernard Shaw—a world-class writer and a founder of the London School of Economics—noted this thought deficit many years ago. Few people think more than two or three times...
Sometimes in life, going straight up the middle is the boldest move of all.
Si se suman, por ejemplo, todos los hombres y mujeres del planeta, se comprobará que, por término medio, el humano adulto medio tiene una mama y un testículo…
Running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.
Quizá resulte triste, pero para nada sorprendente, descubrir que expertos como Snyder son capaces de actuar en beneficio propio hasta el punto de engañar. Pero no pueden engañar solos. Los medios de c...
Quitting is hard in part because it is equated with failure, and nobody likes to fail, or at least be seen failing. But is failure necessarily so terrible?
Peter Leeson, whose research has covered topics like Gypsy law and pirate economics, did just that.
Para evitar heridas graves, los cinturones de seguridad funcionaron, una vez más, igual de bien que los asientos para niños de dos a seis años. Pero para heridas más leves, los asientos funcionaron me...
One of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences.
Not so many years ago, schoolchildren were taught that carbon dioxide is the naturally occurring lifeblood of plants, just as oxygen is ours. Today, children are more likely to think of carbon dioxide...
Never, ever think that people will do something just because it is the right thing to do.
Muchos de nuestros descubrimientos pueden no ser de mucha utilidad, incluso puede que no sean concluyentes. Pero eso está bien. Lo que intentamos es iniciar una conversación, no tener la última palabr...