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Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 5
Economist
Psychologist
University Teacher
Tel Aviv
Israel
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If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.
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Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.
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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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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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Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.
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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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Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.
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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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The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
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Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
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... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.
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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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Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
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