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“We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we’re not going to do better.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely: Our buggy moral code
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“If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar … but slightly uglier.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
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“When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
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“In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely: Beware conflicts of interest
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“The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely: Beware conflicts of interest
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“When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it — meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?
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“There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?
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“The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. … The good news is that by simply looking at something that somebody has done, scanning it and saying ‘uh huh,’ [you] dramatically improve people's motivations.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?
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“Every time I assemble IKEA furniture, it takes me much longer, it's much more effortful, it's much more confusing … but when I finish it, I seem to like those IKEA pieces of furniture more than I like other ones.”
— Dan ArielyDan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?
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