When people imagine themselves as advisers and imagine their own choices as belonging to someone else, they feel less tired and rely less on decision shortcuts to make those choices.
Iconoclasts, either because they were born that way or through learning, have found ways to work around the perceptual shortcuts that plague most people.
Economy of effort in every way, he preached, the sharpest self-control, the fewest strokes possible to express a fact, the least slapping about of purposeless paint.
Avoid vacant blocks, parks or shortcuts through alleys or waste ground, and do not walk close to arcade entrances or areas where a person might be hiding.
People were borrowing, mortgaging their homes in many cases to obtain those bits of paper, because they were sure they found an easy way to make money.