Daniel Kahneman Quotes
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler ...
Show MoreDawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as we...
Show MoreThe often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you ...
Show MoreMood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose tou...
Show MoreFreedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels ...
Show MoreThe premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.
The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind wo...
Show MoreCharacteristics of System 1: • generates impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by S...
Show MoreThe amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very ...
Show More...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is unde...
Show MoreA reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is n...
Show MoreNothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful...
Show MoreIt's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and ...
Show MorePolitical columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a tim...
Show MoreThe 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.
We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, wi...
Show MoreYou think with your body, not with your brain.
You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and ...
Show MorePeople just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate ...
Show MoreI used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that...
Show MoreIf people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea tha...
Show MoreIt's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-be...
Show MoreSome experimenters have reported that an angry face “pops out” of a crowd of happy faces, but a sing...
Show MoreThere's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and ...
Show MoreTrue intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much wan...
Show MoreAn investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% c...
Show MoreCourage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you ...
Show MoreAt work here is that powerful WYSIATI ("what you see is all there is") rule. You cannot help dealing...
Show MoreWhen you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is...
Show MoreNothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like...
Show MoreThe law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people ...
Show MoreJumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an ...
Show MoreThe test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has change...
Show MoreMany parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while t...
Show MoreHowever, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on anoth...
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