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...shown that if people feel as though they can influence their destiny, they tend to make smarter choices. But if authorities warn them not to panic (as President Obama has done), people may make worse decisions. They feel more frightened - not less - and wonder what they don't know that might make them panic. "Never tell people not to worry. That's really, really bad," Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the CDC, said at a recent government flu conference. "You can tell immediately in the body language, if you've ever said that to someone. When they...
...easy, but that's not the way it works," says his father. "I hated it when I was doing it," says Hayden. "I was inside for like three weeks straight." Stock up on games, movies, books and extreme levels of tolerance. Sometimes the gravest threats are the ones we know all too well...
...clean your house and who has been doing it for 30 years might be a close consequential stranger. But you also have a lot of people on the periphery: the nice woman in accounting whom you see on occasion, people in a yoga class. You don't know them that well. You may not even have had lunch with them or had coffee with them, but you know all of them. They are the familiar signposts of our day. What I always say is that our intimates anchor us at home, but our consequential strangers make us feel grounded...
...that our intimates are the most important people in our life. But both in our personal lives and in our business endeavors, the freshest information, the exposure to the most novel experiences, comes from people on the periphery. That's because our intimates, or the people in the center, know what each other know. Intimates think the way we think and they know what we know, whereas people who are what the sociologists call "weak ties" don't. They're different from us, they link to other networks and different kinds of information, and therefore they are the place where...
...guard, your shoulders are up near your ears, your heart might be beating a little bit faster, you're not exactly open to having conversations with strangers. But if you're in a welcoming, safe environment, whether it's a store or a park or the barbershop where you know some people or the tavern on the corner, you're more likely to open up to a stranger. And, of course, all relationships develop from stranger to consequential stranger, and sometimes consequential strangers become close friends and we might even marry them. So place is very important in terms...