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We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
— Daniel Kahneman
A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.
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Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
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People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.
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If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
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We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
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We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.
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The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
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A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end - the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad.
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The mind is good with stories, but it does not appear to be well designed for the processing of time.
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The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.
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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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Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.
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Knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
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I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
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So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
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Put your ideas in verse if you can; they will be more likely to be taken as truth.
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And want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit
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One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.
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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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Familiarity breeds liking.
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True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
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The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
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People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.
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What people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning.
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Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."
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We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
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Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
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A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success;
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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
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There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
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a stable relationship requires that good interactions outnumber bad interactions by at least 5 to 1.
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Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
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More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive - incorrect - answer.
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Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith - a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.
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A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
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Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.
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Belief in the Law of Small Numbers.
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I'm not a great believer in self-help.
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Once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.
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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
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Simple, common gestures can also unconsciously influence our thoughts and feelings.
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One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.
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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
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Bazaar shoppers who wear dark glasses in order to hide their level of interest from merchants.
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We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
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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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There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
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If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.
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regression inevitably occurs when the correlation between two measures is less than perfect,
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It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.
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prepared for the future as you could be. An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere conjunction of
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I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.
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Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
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Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions.
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Endlessly amused by people's minds.
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Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
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In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
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Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.
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There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
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living in a culture that surrounds us with reminders of money may shape our behavior and our attitudes in ways that we do not know about
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Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.
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Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.
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My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
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And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts - although they may have valuable insights into the near future. The
— Daniel Kahneman
People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.
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Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.
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You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
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It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
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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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it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.
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The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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They didn't want more information that might spoil their story. WYSIATI.
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People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
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However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.
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In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.
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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
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While writing the article that reported these findings, Amos and I discovered that we enjoyed working together.
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The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
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The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.
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Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives.
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The question we face is whether this candidate can succeed. The question we seem to answer is whether she interviews well. Let's not substitute.
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The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
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It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
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Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times,
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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
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Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions
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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
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