Most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others’. This doesn’t make them bad people; it just makes them human.
The second lesson to be drawn from Kobayashi’s success has to do with the limits that we accept, or refuse to.
Most people are terrible at risk assessment. They tend to overstate the risk of dramatic and unlikely events at the expense of more common and boring (if equally devastating) events.
Según la Administración Nacional de Seguridad de Tráfico en Carreteras (NHTSA), más del 80 por ciento de los asientos para niños están mal instalados.
Dead horses were extremely unwieldy
More than 70 percent of the men in his generation have sex before they marry, compared with just 33 percent in the earlier generation.
Your argument may be factually indisputable and logically airtight but if it doesn’t resonate for the recipient, you won’t get anywhere.
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…
Here’s a guess: anybody who bothers to change his name in the name of economic success is—like the high-school freshmen in Chicago who entered the school-choice lottery—at least highly motivated, and...
But when it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass.
But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.
There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral.
La Ley de Especies en Peligro generó un incentivo similarmente perverso. Cuando los terratenientes temen que su propiedad sea un hábitat atractivo para un animal en peligro de extinción, o incluso un...
W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
The best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency.
Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.
The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong.
When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of glo...
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...
Yes, but . . . think about it for a moment. Why did it take so much effort to persuade doctors to do what they have known to do since the age of Semmelweis? Why was it so hard to change their behavior...
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