The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor. - Charlie Munger

Then, while people are justifying all these layers, it takes forever to get anything done. They’re too slow to make decisions, and nimbler people run circles around them.

It is better to remember the obvious than to grasp the esoteric.

Darwin’s result was due in large measure to his working method, which violated all my rules for misery and particularly emphasized a backward twist in that he always gave priority attention to evidence tending to disconfirm whatever cherished and hard-won theory he already had.