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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

Admit what you don’t know, don’t pretend
Heart attack rates of African Americans higher than on others. Hypothesis: salt retention - linked to slave selection. Better salt retention made it more likely to survive the journey.
Making these claims is difficult with fear of being wrong.
Small problems are often overlooked. Gansu only 57 of 2500 students who needed glasses wore them. Giving them glasses increased learning 25-50%.
Give control: charity donation rates doubled when giving people control of # of mail to receive.
To persuade, acknowledge flaws, keep insults to yourself, use stories (not anecdotes).
Storytelling is a very important art. It makes concepts come alive. Makes people learn and organize. It brings us all together. Makes us feel a certain way.

(what concrete actions will I take after reading this book?)