Daniel Kahneman Quotes
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So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
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People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
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Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.
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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
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People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.
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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
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There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.
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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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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 concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
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People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.
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True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
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We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.
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There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are.
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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
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It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
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He's taking an inside view. He should forget about his own case and look for what happened in other cases.
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He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.
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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
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We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
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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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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.