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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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