When you are a 55-year-old man, you don’t buy a car for yourself — you buy it for your Jungian shadow-self
By Rory Sutherland
Economically it might be worth $20,000 for a young Italian to attain proficiency in English, even if he never leaves Italy
By Rory Sutherland
There are only three things in a hotel room which you can’t get at home
By Rory Sutherland
In the earliest stages, it is immensely hard to distinguish really big ideas from slightly silly ideas
By Rory Sutherland
What seems efficient to an organization may be infuriating to an outsider
By Rory Sutherland
If COVID had immediate effects (your hair instantly turned purple) we might have cracked the problem by now
By Rory Sutherland
In reality, what you don’t know is always more critical than what you do
By Rory Sutherland
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley reviewed
By Rory Sutherland
To almost everyone’s surprise, working from home works
By Rory Sutherland
Behavior is contagious, and much of what we do results from unconscious mimicry
By Rory Sutherland
The ability to travel within your own mind seems to be a great gift — instead we disparage it with terms such as ‘couch potato’
By Rory Sutherland
Advertising, like tabloid journalism, is as eternally relevant as the works of Shakespeare
By Rory Sutherland
Many of us would practice self-distancing for ever if only those bastard extroverts would stop making us go to things
By Rory Sutherland
A human vaccine does not, in fact, cure the disease — it simply hacks the immune system to create its own cure
By Rory Sutherland
