QUOTES by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman
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"Do we still remember the question we are trying to answer? Or have we substituted an easier one?"
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"I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."
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"Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own. Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the"
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"The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias."
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"Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives."
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"An inability to be guided by a “healthy fear” of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw."
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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."
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"It is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored."
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"You know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious."
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"You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding."
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"One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure."
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"The goal of venture capitalists is to call the extreme cases correctly, even at the cost of overestimating the prospects of many other ventures."
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"Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted."
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"People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations."
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"Much of the discussion in this book is about biases of intuition. However, the focus on error does not denigrate human intelligence, any more than the attention to diseases in medical texts denies good health."
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"There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make."
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"The prominence of causal intuitions is a recurrent theme in this book because people are prone to apply causal thinking inappropriately, to situations that require statistical reasoning."
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"System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions."
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"If you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion."
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"In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures."
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"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth."
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"To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability."
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"The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?"
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"Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment."
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"As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain."
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"In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand."
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"You have no compelling moral intuitions to guide you in solving that problem. Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself."
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"The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast."
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"Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality."
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"Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition."
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"To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other."
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"Jonathan Haidt said in another context, “The emotional tail wags the rational dog."
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"The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own."
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"We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact."
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"Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty."
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"The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works."
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"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."
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"Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions."
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"The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact."
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"The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future."
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"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness."
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"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."
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"You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general."
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"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events."
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"A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise."
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