Quotes About Adjustment

es ist leichter, sich in eine fremde Welt zu finden, als sich in einer fremdgewordenen wieder heimisch zu machen!

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Nick Epley and Tom Gilovich found evidence that adjustment is a deliberate attempt to find reasons to move away from the anchor:

Very little repetition is needed for a new experience to feel normal!

It is difficult to accept changes for the worse.

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?")

People adjust less (stay closer to the anchor) when their mental resources are depleted, either because their memory is loaded with digits or because they are slightly drunk.

Correcting your predictions may complicate your life

Two different mechanisms produce anchoring effects—one for each system. There is a form of anchoring that occurs in a deliberate process of adjustment, an operation of System 2. And there is anchoring that occurs by a priming effect, an automatic manifestation of System 1.

Insufficient adjustment is also a source of tension between exasperated parents and teenagers who enjoy loud music in their room. Le Boeuf and Shafir note that a "well-intentioned child who turns down exceptionally loud music to meet a parent's demand that it be played at a 'reasonable' volume may fail to adjust sufficiently from a high anchor, and may feel that genuine attempts at compromise are being overlooked.

La adaptación a una nueva situación, sea buena o mala, consiste en gran parte en pensar cada vez menos en ella. En

Adaptation to a new situation, whether good or bad, consists in large part of thinking less and less about it.

Amos liked the idea of an adjust-and-anchor heuristic as a strategy for estimating uncertain quantities: start from an anchoring number, assess whether it is too high or too low, and gradually adjust your estimate by mentally "moving" from the anchor. The adjustment typically ends prematurely, because people stop when they are no longer certain that they should move farther.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

That's what growth is all about. It doesn't come when things are status quo. It happens only when something new is introduced, forcing every integral part to adjust. This is a universal law that can be applied on any level of life.

No quieras reproducir tal cual en tu casa, la casa que dejaste al casarte. A menos que quieras comprobarlo por ti mismo, siempre tal cosa será generadora de abundantes discusiones y distanciamientos que pueden y deben evitarse. Has comenzado una nueva etapa, a escribir una nueva historia. La clave aquí es esa palabra increíble: «nueva». No lo olvides.

You will become less organized as you get older.

Precious had been a darling cat, too bad they'd had to get rid of her because she clashed with the furniture. Fortunately, the aquarium was a better fit.

Earth had done just that over the last few hundred years.

That's the part of it I [Sam Spade] always liked. He [Flitcraft] adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to their not falling.

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in."

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.