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The Nagasaki bomb contained about 14 pounds of plutonium, but the waste generated fills acres of manicured dirt, the texture of a baseball infield, just downhill from the plant. “The tank farm,” they call it. One hundred and seventy-seven tanks, each roughly the size of a four-story apartment building and capable of holding a million gallons of “high-level waste,” lay buried on Hanford’s tank farms. Fifty-six million gallons in the tanks are classified as “high-level waste.”
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
Remember, your competition doesn’t take meetings with founders seriously because they think, incorrectly, that they have the power. Your challenge isn’t writing the checks, it’s convincing the right founders to cash them.
Motivation = expectancy for success × value of succeeding In other words, your motivation to do just about anything is a function of both (1) how likely you think you are to succeed at doing it, and (2) how much you will get out of it when you do. In the case of asking for help, this theory suggests that being motivated to ask is a function of both the likelihood that the helper will say yes and the quality of the help you think you will receive. And we underestimate both.8 Combine this double miscalculation with the five kinds of threat (discussed in chapter 1) that a request for support can cause, and it’s no small wonder that most of us try to go it alone.
Reinforcements
Heidi Grant
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