Daniel KahnemanAll 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. ✨ How Do Experi… ▶371LifeTime
Daniel KahnemanOptimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you … ▶362HopeHumanityReading
Daniel KahnemanAdaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. ✨ Are You Happy Now?. Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10… ▶362Life
Daniel KahnemanMental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.352Time
Daniel KahnemanBanks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.363Humanity
Daniel KahnemanYou know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the… ▶353HumanityPoliticsTime
Daniel KahnemanWe 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.376PoliticsTruth
Daniel KahnemanOur memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. ✨ The riddle of experience vs. memory. TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.… ▶343Life
Daniel KahnemanThe psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all fo… ▶376Thought
Daniel KahnemanPeople's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place b… ▶365Humanity
Daniel KahnemanEmployers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. ✨ Daniel Kahneman (2… ▶354Thought
Daniel KahnemanWe 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… ▶333Thought
Daniel KahnemanWe are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random. ✨ Daniel Kahneman (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow, p.133, Macmillan301LifeThought
Daniel KahnemanIntuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wron… ▶334Humanity
Daniel KahnemanNegotiations 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 … ▶346HumanityThought
Daniel KahnemanFriends 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… ▶368Time
Daniel KahnemanThrough some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.291Thought
Daniel KahnemanThere's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.324Love
Daniel KahnemanMost of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.335ThoughtTime
Daniel KahnemanWe're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments. ✨ Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. January 30, 2013.357Humanity
Daniel KahnemanPeople tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media… ▶336HumanityThought
Daniel KahnemanThe 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. 303ThoughtTruth
Daniel KahnemanPolitical columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.292Politics
Daniel KahnemanAcquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions. … ▶314Thought
Daniel KahnemanIndividual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.369Politics
Daniel KahnemanCourage 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.282Time
Daniel KahnemanNobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens. ✨ The Truth About How We Think. Interview with Jen… ▶348ThoughtTruth
Daniel KahnemanI have always emphasized the willingness to discard. ✨ Desktop Diaries with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. May 17, 2013.337Politics
Daniel KahnemanHindsight bias makes surprises vanish.282Life
Daniel KahnemanMy interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things t… ▶293HopeHumanityTime
