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However, he also said external circumstances could influence our actions, such as being born into poverty.
Unconscious biases influence our actions every day, even when by definition we don't notice them.
Rather, the values and norms of the fictions we consume or participate in suffuse our world views and influence our actions.
By dipping into the vast data trails left by credit cards, web searches and social media, boffins are, we learn, able to monitor, predict and even influence our actions with alarming levels of accuracy.
"This event had greatly reduced America's stakes in Vietnam," McNamara writes now, but at the time "Kennan's point failed to catch our attention and thus to influence our actions". Oddly, in a memoir almost entirely critical of his own performance, McNamara defends the "body count," the military's often-ridiculed attempt to measure progress in the war by counting enemy dead.
Of course, most of us are blissfully unaware of the tendencies that influence our actions.
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"The Qantas Sale Act limits our financial options, it adds cost to our business and it influences our actions as a publicly listed company.
And we are not asking for one now … The Qantas Sale Act limits our financial options, it adds cost to our business and it influences our actions as a publicly listed company.
The mind is powerful and what we tell ourselves influences our actions and reactions.
The point I am trying to make is that our past experiences are influencing our actions today.
I once heard a lecture given by Professor Steven Goldman at Lehigh University, and he defined "belief" as something that influences our actions -- whether or not it is objectively true.
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