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Although humans are not irrational, they often need help to make more accurate judgements and better decisions. [...] [They] also need protection from others who deliberately exploit their weaknesses [...]. (Daniel Kahneman)
There's literally no difference between a physician recognizing a disease from a "facial expression", and a little child pointing to something and saying "doggie". View quote
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When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound. View quote
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An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same. View quote
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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time. View quote
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True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. View quote
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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. View quote
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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. View quote
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People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt. View quote
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The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. View quote
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We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random. (Daniel Kahneman)
Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it. View quote
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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate. View quote
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The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better. View quote
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Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks. View quote
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After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time. View quote
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Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace. View quote
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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it. View quote
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There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. View quote
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If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea. View quote
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The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast. (Daniel Kahneman)
We have a very narrow view of what is going on. View quote
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People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child. View quote
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Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact. View quote
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Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. View quote
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