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After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy spoke to newspaper publishers and said: “This administration intends to be candid about its errors. For as a wise man once said, ‘An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.’ . . . Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed—and no republic can survive.” The final responsibility for the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion was, he said, “mine, and mine alone.” Kennedy’s popularity soared.
Mistakes Were Made
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
To have reason cut off from the high-speed, jump-cut assistance of emotion is virtually incapacitating, as many neuroscientists have shown with patients who have suffered brain damage. Those patients can perform all sorts of logical functions; they have normal memory; and yet they are incapable of scheduling an appointment because their pure reason makes it impossible for them to decide. They can’t bookmark feelings. They have no intuition, no gut feelings. They’ve been cut off from their bodies in a sense. The most remarkable discovery of modern neuroscience is that the body controls the brain as much as the brain controls the body.
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
21. Taleb’s Surgeons:
You're considering 2 people for a job, one pretty, one ugly. In achievements they're equal. Who do you hire?
The pretty one?
No! The ugly one. They accomplished just as much while having a bias against them.
Always factor in other people's prejudices.
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