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We Aren't Natural Statisticians. What We Are Is Natural Storytelling Machines. And So What We Do After We Have The Facts In Hand Is Build A Story To Explain The Facts.

Girls Tend To Attribute Their Failures To Factors Such As Lack Of Ability, While Boys Tend To Attribute Failure To Specific Factors, Including Teachers' Attitudes. Moreover, Girls Avoid Situations In Which Failure Is Likely, Whereas Boys Approach Such Situations As A Challenge, Indicating That Failure Differentially Affects Self-esteem.

As Idiotic As Optimism Can Sometimes Seem, It Has A Weird Habit Of Paying Off.

The Inability To Envision A Certain Kind Of Person Doing A Certain Kind Of Thing Because You've Never Seen Someone Who Looks Like Him Do It Before Is Not Just A Vice. It's A Luxury. What Begins As A Failure Of The Imagination Ends As A Market Inefficiency: When You Rule Out An Entire Class Of People From Doing A Job Simply By Their Appearance, You Are Less Likely To Find The Best Person For The Job.

Each Firm Held Its Rope; One By One, They Realized That No Matter How Strongly They Pulled, The Balloon Would Eventually Lift Them Off Their Feet.