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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
No matter what your situation, there are always positives. Whether or not you choose to see them is up to you.
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!