Trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lot worse—even dangerous.

试图集中注意力来避免愚蠢的失误，可能会让事情变得更糟——甚至更危险。

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But trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lot worse—even dangerous.

但试图通过集中注意力来避免愚蠢的失误，可能会让事情变得更糟——甚至更危险。

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Even worse, the study found that girls act on that belief: Around age six they start to avoid activities said to be for children who are "really, really smart".

更糟糕的是，研究发现女孩们是按照这个信念行事的：六岁左右，她们开始避免参加那些据说是为“非常、非常聪明”的孩子准备的活动。

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The irony in all of this is that in the myriad post-mortems following the financial crisis, the commentariat fell over themselves wailing about banks being too large, that we must shrink them in order to avoid something worse in the future.

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In the worst case, this continues to the point that the consequences of success can be worse than the failure you tried to avoid: What is the value to achieve something that is inconsequential, and nobody cares about?

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But things took a turn for the worse this week when, to avoid the collapse of his centre-right coalition government, Mr Batlle had to sack his unpopular finance minister, Alberto Bension.

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