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Endlessly amused by people's minds.
I'm not a great believer in self-help.
Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions
The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
We think of our future as anticipated memories.
We have a very narrow view of what is going on.
Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.
You should not take your intuitions at face value.
Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.
Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.
Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.
It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.
In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.
Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.
The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory
We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.
I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.
If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.