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Daniel Kahneman
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 5
Economist
Psychologist
University Teacher
Tel Aviv
Israel
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Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
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You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.
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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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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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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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Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.
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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
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Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
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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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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
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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.
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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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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
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Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
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Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
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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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We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
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That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.
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Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.
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