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The law of the instrument, law of the hammer, [1] Maslow's hammer, or golden hammer [a] is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. Abraham Maslow wrote in 1966, "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
Pages in category "Rules of thumb" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. ... Rule of twelfths; S. Scott's rule; Sturges's rule; Sunny 16 rule;
A bridge maxim is a rule of thumb in contract bridge acting as a memory aid to best practice gained from experience rather than theory. [1] [2] Maxims. Bidding
You won't be alone if that's the case.
Cartoon by James Gillray satirizing Sir Francis Buller, 1782: "Judge Thumb; or, Patent Sticks for Family Correction: Warranted Lawful!". A modern folk etymology [14] relates the phrase to domestic violence via an alleged rule under English common law which permitted wife-beating provided that the implement used was a rod or stick no thicker than a man's thumb. [6]
“At the business school, I tell them that they would all be better off if when they got out of school somebody gave them a card with 20 punches on it and every time they made an investment ...
The tried-and-true investing and saving rules of thumb retirees depend on may no longer be as reliable as they hoped. Don’t let dated “rules” steer your retirement wrong.
In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate (shave off) unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions. [ 1 ] Examples