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One interesting way to break the sunk cost is to think about the cost of staying to other people. You might be willing to absorb the abuse yourself — but are you willing to put your family through the effects of your staying?

— Leanne ten Brinke on breaking the sunk cost fallacy
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They tend to have quite a power of persuasion and dominance in person. That gets diminished when they are reduced to words on a page.

— Leanne ten Brinke on reducing contact with poisonous people
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It’s more like a you problem than a them problem. You have a problem with their behaviour, but they don’t have the same level of empathy or concern for others. So why would they care about it?

— Leanne ten Brinke on why dark personalities don’t want to change
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That stress doesn’t just stay in the office. We get in our car, we get on the subway, we bring it home with us. If you have a high-psychopathy boss, research shows you actually have more conflict at home too.

— Leanne ten Brinke on the contagion effect of toxic bosses
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They are not held back by care, compassion, concern, or remorse. They are very willing to lie to get what they want.

— Leanne ten Brinke on dark personalities and deception
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No matter how poor you are, you don’t really have to wear rags anymore. Why? Because technology automated the production of t-shirts.

— No matter how poor you are, you don’t really have to wear rags anymore. Why? Bec…
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It’s this weird dichotomy of superintelligence and super stupidity, sort of mixed in one scenario.

— It’s this weird dichotomy of superintelligence and super stupidity, sort of mixe…
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The way we should think about intelligence is in terms of a volume in a high-dimensional space.

— The way we should think about intelligence is in terms of a volume in a high-dim…
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Interviews

Poisonous People: Psychopathy, Narcissism, Manipulation, and Sadism — How to Resist Them and Improve Your Life

Poisonous People: Psychopathy, Narcissism, Manipulation, and Sadism — How to Resist Them and Improve Your Life

In this interview I speak to Dr Leanne ten Brinke - an award-winning psychologist and associate professor at...

From Feature Engineering to Superintelligence: Richard Socher on the Next Frontier of AI

From Feature Engineering to Superintelligence: Richard Socher on the Next Frontier of AI

In this interview I speak to Dr. Richard Socher — pioneer of neural NLP, inventor of widely used...

Nir Eyal: Why Belief — Not Talent, Effort, or Strategy — Is the Real Driver of Human Performance

Nir Eyal: Why Belief — Not Talent, Effort, or Strategy — Is the Real Driver of Human Performance

You know what to do. So why aren’t you doing it? In this interview, I speak to NYT...

Health, the Body & Longevity

What 89 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about health and human longevity

Conflict, Peace & the Global Order

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What 190 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about the nature of reality

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What 207 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about the fight for justice

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What 161 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about resilience and mental strength

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What 190 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about life's deepest questions

Technology, AI & The Future of Humanity

What 280 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about our technological future

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