Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

• Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Communication, Our Words, Fundamentals

  Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.117, Vintage

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• Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

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  Events, Belief, Conscious

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.270, Harmony

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• Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

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  Mind, Behavior, Subliminal

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• One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

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  Weather, World, Way

  "Leonard Mlodinow On Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior". Interview with Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Ideas, Matter, Way

  Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.164, Penguin UK

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• Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

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  Beautiful, Black, Soup

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.12, Harmony

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• We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.

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  Falling In Love, Believe, Judging

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• A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

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  Mean, Trying, Next

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• Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

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  Understanding, Feelings, Research

  Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.19, Vintage

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• Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

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  Mean, Events, Ordinary

  Leonard Mlodinow (2008). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.12, Vintage

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• We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and make judgments based on uncertain and incomplete information, and we conclude, when we are done analyzing the patterns, that out picture is clear and accurate. But is it?

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  Data, Imagination, Patterns

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• Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

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  Pain, Emotional, Rejection

  Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.79, Vintage

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• What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

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  Taken, Opportunity, Play

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• Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

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  Voice, Usual, Raises

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• That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Successful

  Leonard Mlodinow (2008). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.14, Vintage

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• We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

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  People, Judging, Vision

  Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.189, Penguin UK

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• Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Reality, Psychosis, Ideas

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