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The Upside of Being Taken For A Sucker & Why Projects Are Often Late and Over-Budget

Something You Should Know

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The Fear of Being Played for a Fool Is Counterproductive to Our Goals

Sally Kohn: In a number of contexts in our lives, the fear of being played for a fool is counterproductive to our own actual goals. She says we often overestimate the risk of that kind of scam and it sort of bleeds over into situations in which we actually would prefer to go ahead and do the thing even though it's going to have a small chance of getting scammed. "I think that the scam that you're describing is exactly the kind of thing that you want to ideally avoid," she says.

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