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Wilson explains that man is perpetually suspended between the two extreme forces that created us: “Individual selection [which] prompted sin and group selection [which] promoted virtue.”
ANCHORING
We make decisions based on arbitrary benchmarks (“anchors”). Someone is more likely to buy a car if a more expensive car (the anchor) is placed beside it. In this case the anchor gives the buyer the impression that the original car is a better deal than it actually is.
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In the aftermath of the investigation the report is made available to everyone. Airlines have a legal responsibility to implement the recommendations. Every pilot in the world has free access to the data. This enables everyone to learn from the mistake, rather than just a single crew, or a single airline, or a single nation. This turbo-charges the power of learning. As Eleanor Roosevelt put it: ‘Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.’
Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed
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