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- We turn a blind eye in order to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety and to protect prestige. It makes us feel good at first, with consequences we don’t see.
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Feb 1, 2011 · Heffernan explains how willful blindness develops before exploring ways that institutions and individuals can combat it. In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's Willful Blindness, is a tour de force on human behavior that will open your eyes.
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Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of willful blindness, tracing its imprint in our social lives, love lives, and working lives. What is it that makes us prefer ignorance? Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and say, How could we have been so blind?
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Aug 27, 2014 · In Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril (public library), serial entrepreneur and author Margaret Heffernan examines the intricate, pervasive cognitive and emotional mechanisms by which we choose, sometimes consciously but mostly not, to remain unseeing in situations where “we could know, and should know, but don’t know ...
Jul 3, 2012 · Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril. Paperback – July 3, 2012. In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's Willful Blindness is a tour de force on human behavior that will open your eyes.
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- Margaret Heffernan
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Jun 30, 2022 · Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-286) and index. Affinity and beyond -- Love is blind -- Dangerous convictions -- The limits of your mind -- The ostrich instruction -- Just following orders -- The cult of cultures -- Bystanders -- Out of sight, out of mind -- De-moralizing work -- Cassandra -- In praise of potholes.
Mar 1, 2011 · Margaret Heffernan argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don't see--not because they're secret or invisible, but because we're willfully blind.
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