"There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual."

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Source : Gregory Berns (2013). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.88, Harvard Business Press

Gregory Berns

#Giving Up Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.”
“Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.”
“That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.”
“It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.”
“What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”
“God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.”
“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.”
“Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .”

Source : Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.151, Weiser Books

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