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Daniel Kahneman Inspirational Quotes (124)

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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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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
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Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.
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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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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
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The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.
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The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
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We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.
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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
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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.
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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
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People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
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Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.
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It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.
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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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We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.
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The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
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People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
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Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
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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.
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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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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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Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.
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Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.
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