User:Kinologik

Psychology

 * Cognitive dissonance

Decision-making, belief, and behavioral biases

 * Optimism bias
 * Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." ― Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Probability biases

 * Sunk costs
 * "After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them." ― Morris West, The Shoes of the Fisherman

Social biases

 * Fundamental attribution error
 * "We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior." ― Stephen M.R. Covey, The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Blind men and an elephant

Strategies

 * Scenario planning

Quotes

 * Frederick Douglass
 * "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both."