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Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative - that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them.
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Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?
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Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.
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Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn't be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.
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If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me how to live a life of substance.
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We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us.