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Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

- Sendhil Mullainathan
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Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.

As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.

If you send out one coupon with a deadline of a week and another that must be used within the next month, you end up having more redemptions with the one week deadline. It's really amazing. With the month deadline you have four times as much time, but people tend to say they'll use it in a few weeks' time and then they don't do it.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the surrounding ones?

Things that price at $4.99 sell very differently than things that price at $5.

Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.

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Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.