If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. … - Daniel Kahneman

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I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

Daniel Kahneman

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect. ' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

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