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I'm not a great believer in self-help.

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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True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
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Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
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Laziness is built deep into our nature.
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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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Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
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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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Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
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The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.
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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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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.
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Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
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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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If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
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Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.
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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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Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
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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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The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
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We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
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