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Daniel Kahneman Inspirational Quotes (124)

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A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.
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I'm not a great believer in self-help.
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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
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Laziness is built deep into our nature.
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There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.
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When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
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Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.
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The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.
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The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
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The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.
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Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
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We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
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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.
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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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I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
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When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.
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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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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
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All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.
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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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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
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This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.
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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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