Amanda Ripley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.”
-- Amanda Ripley

#Kids #Risk #Everyday
“The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.”
-- Amanda Ripley

#Risk #Events #Management
“Narrative is the beginning of recovery.”
-- Amanda Ripley

#Recovery #Narrative
“Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arcâ€”where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.”
-- Amanda Ripley

#Survival #Impossible #Arcs
“Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in lifeâ€™s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.”
-- Amanda Ripley

#Meaningful #Believe #Skills
“Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.”
-- Amanda Ripley

#Parent #Saws #Cheerleader
“Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.”
-- Amanda Ripley

#Education #Children #Boredom

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