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141 " You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don't have enough doubts about them. "
― Malcolm Gladwell , Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
142 " Because we trust implicitly, spies go undetected, criminals roam free, and lives are damaged. But Levine’s point is that the price of giving up on that strategy is much higher. If everyone on Wall Street behaved like Harry Markopolos, there would be no fraud on Wall Street—but the air would be so thick with suspicion and paranoia that there would also be no Wall Street. "
143 " Você acredita em alguém não porque não tenha dúvidas a respeito da pessoa. A crença não é a ausência de dúvida. Você acredita em alguém porque não tem dúvidas suficientes a respeito. "
144 " Markopolos sees his mistake now, with the benefit of over a decade of hindsight. But in the midst of things, the same brilliant mind that was capable of unraveling Madoff’s deceptions was incapable of getting people in positions of responsibility to take him seriously. That’s the consequence of not defaulting to truth. If you don’t begin in a state of trust, you can’t have meaningful social encounters. "
145 " We should also accept the limits of our ability to decipher strangers. In the interrogation of KSM, there were two sides. James Mitchell and his colleague Bruce Jessen were driven by the desire to make KSM talk. On the other side, Charles Morgan worried about the cost of forcing people to talk: what if in the act of coercing a prisoner to open up, you damaged his memories and made what he had to say less reliable? Morgan’s more-modest expectations are a good model for the rest of us. "
146 " What is required of us is restraint and humility. "
147 " Levine argumenta que este é o pressuposto da transparência em ação. Nós tendemos a julgar a honestidade das pessoas baseadas na maneira como se expressam. "
148 " In one of the earliest studies of blackouts, an alcohol researcher named Donald Goodwin gathered ten men from an unemployment line in St. Louis, gave them each the better part of a bottle of bourbon over a four-hour period, then had them perform a series of memory tests. Goodwin writes "
149 " There are clues to making sense of a stranger. But attending to them requires care and attention. "
150 " Drinking puts you at the mercy of your environment. It crowds out everything except the most immediate experiences.2 "
151 " Many of those who study alcohol no longer consider it an agent of disinhibition. They think of it as an agent of myopia. "
152 " doubts are not the enemy of belief; they are its companion. "
153 " Chamo isto de modelo do Drácula', disse Weisburd. 'Existem individuais que são como Drácula. Eles precisam cometar crimes. É um modelo que diz que pessoas estão tão altamente motivadas a cometer crimes que nada mais importa'. "
154 " Poets die young. That is not just a cliché. The life expectancy of poets, as a group, trails playwrights, novelists, and nonfiction writers by a considerable margin. They have higher rates of “emotional disorders” than actors, musicians, composers, and novelists. "
155 " Trying to get information out of someone you are sleep-depriving is sort of like trying to get a better signal out of a radio that you are smashing with a sledgehammer. "
156 " The blindness of Chamberlain and Halifax and Henderson is not at all like Puzzle Number One, from the previous chapter. That was about the inability of otherwise intelligent and dedicated people to understand when they are being deceived. This is a situation where some people were deceived by Hitler and others were not. And the puzzle is that the group who were deceived are the ones you’d expect not to be, while those who saw the truth are the ones you’d think would be deceived. "
157 " Some people had doubts about Sandusky. But remember, doubts are not the enemy of belief; they are its companion. "
158 " Alcohol isn’t an agent of revelation. It is an agent of transformation. "
159 " But Tim Levine’s research suggests that they aren’t random—that we have built a world that systematically discriminates against a class of people who, through no fault of their own, violate our ridiculous ideas about transparency. "
160 " This could all be a coincidence, of course. Perhaps Chamberlain and his cohort, for whatever private reason, were determined to see the Hitler they wanted to see, regardless of the evidence of their eyes and ears. Except that the same puzzling pattern crops up everywhere. "