What the Dog Saw

Malcolm Gladwell

• We're more willing to gamble when it comes to losses, but are risk averse when it comes to our gains. That's why we like small daily winnings in the stock market, even if that requires that we risk losing everything in a crash.
• His risk of getting throat cancer was something like on in a hundred thousand, almost unimaginably small. He was black swan! The cancer is now beaten, but the memory of it is also Taleb's secret, because once you have been a black swan -- not just seen one but lived and faced death as one -- it becomes easier to imagine another one on the horizon.
• Dogs are really interested in humans. Interested to the point of obsession. To a dog, you are a giant walking tennis ball.
• Osama bin Laden's whereabouts are a puzzle. We can't find him because we don't have enough information.... The problem of what would happen in Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein was, by contrast, a mystery..... the hard part is not that we have too little information but that we have too much.
• His chosen drink was vodka. Beer he calls "horse piss".
• Eighty percent of the homeless were in and out really quickly. In Philadelphia, the most common length of time that someone is homeless is one day. And the second most common length is two days. And they never come back.
• Enormous sums of money  are already being spent on the chronically homeless. That kind of money it would take to solve the homeless problem could well be less than the kind of money it took to ignore it.
• Under conditions of stress, the explicit system sometimes takes over. That's what it means to choke.
• Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.
• Why are more pedestrians killed crossing the street at marked crosswalks than at unmarked crosswalks? Because they compensate for the "safe" environment of a marked crossing by being less vigilant about oncoming traffic.
• If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous. ... It's a party trick.
• Students who hold a fixed view of their intelligence care so much about looking smart that they act dumb for what could be dumber than giving up a chance to learn something that is essential for your own success?
• The first impression becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy: we hear what we expect to hear. The interview is hopelessly biased  in favor of the nice.

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