Alternative views are dismissed not after consideration, but on contact. Facts are rejected even as they are offered. Perspectives and evidence are repelled somewhat like a magnet repelling iron filings." — Matthew Syed

The bizarre thing is that history and mathematics show us that it is actually what happens in a negative year that really defines one’s long-term track record...

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