Quotes About Understanding

We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy.

When we read, we are capable of taking in only about one key word and then four characters to the left and fifteen characters to the right at any one time.

to succeed in the world he could not be just a dog whisperer. He needed to be a people whisperer.

The thing we want to learn about a stranger is fragile. If we tread carelessly, it will crumple under our feet. In front that falls a second cautionary note: we need to accept that the search to understand the stranger has real limits. We will never know the whole truth. We have to be satisfied with something short of that. The right way to talk to strangers's with caution and humility.

The world - much as we want it to - does not accord with our intuition.

doubts trigger disbelief only when you can't explain them away.

Levine's theories are laid out in his book, Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2019). If you want to understand how deception works, there is no better

Because the people and countries who are wealthy enough to pay for things like really small classes have a hard time understanding that the things their wealth can buy might not always make them better off.

Thin-slicing refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns ins situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience.

We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy. If I can convince you of one thing in this book, let it be this: Strangers are not easy.

To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society.

We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy.

When the screen created a pure Blink moment, a small miracle happened, the kind of small miracle that is always possible when we take charge of the first two seconds: they saw her for who she truly was.

Don't look at the stranger and jump to conclusions. Look at the stranger's world.

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we're better off that way.

If anyone wants to start an epidemic, then-whether it is of shoes or behavior or a piece of software-he or she has to somehow employ Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen in this very way: he or she has to find some person or some means to translate the message of the Innovators into something the rest of us can understand.

There are clues to making sense of a stranger. But attending to them requires care and attention.

no argument in the book has resonated more with readers than this one. We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we're well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

Malcolm Gladwell

Los niños no ven la tele cuando reciben de ella el estímulo necesario ni apartan la vista cuando sienten que les aburre, sino que la ven cuando pueden comprender y dejan de hacerlo cuando les confunde.

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that- sometimes- we're better off that way.

Kids with dyslexia are more likely to end up in the juvenile system, because they act up. It's because they can't figure things out. It's so important in our society to read.

Hooker knew everything he could possibly know about his enemy. But it didn't help him. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Estaban tan concentrados en la mecánica y en los procesos, que eran incapaces de ver el problema desde una perspectiva holística. Cuando se descompone una cosa, se pierde su significado».