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Even if luck counts for only a small percent of evaluation, the chosen cohort can be dominated by high-luck realizations because adding a random luck term creates enough stochastic variation that the top-ranked picks disproportionately include those with extreme positive luck.

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Positional authority (like a boss) can backfire because it feels coercive and breeds resentment when oversight is absent, whereas credible authority (expertise plus trustworthiness) persuades by providing useful information people adopt even without monitoring.

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Your capacity for wholeheartedness is limited by how much heartbreak you're willing to endure, because wholehearted engagement requires vulnerability that exposes you to loss and pain.

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Explainable AI often needs explanations that convince people because humans build trust via plausible, comprehensible narratives, so a convincing story can be more effective than a perfectly literal account of internal processes.

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #65

Noticing fortunate events increases happiness because consciously recognizing external good things triggers gratitude, which produces positive emotional responses that boost subjective well-being.

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Slightly increasing your speaking cadence makes you seem more confident and convincing because speaking a bit faster signals familiarity and conviction, which listeners interpret as confidence and truthfulness.

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Social isolation harms health because lacking supportive people keeps the body in prolonged fight‑or‑flight mode, raising inflammation and stress hormones that wear down systems and reduce happiness.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED

Eliciting a spoken, public commitment dramatically increases follow-through because people strive for consistency between their words and actions—prompting a verbal 'yes' can cut no-shows by about 64%.

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Once people attain status they rationalize deservingness because achieving privilege creates cognitive closure that justifies entitlement to future benefits and reduces scrutiny of structural advantages.

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