“Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the central fact of our existence is that time is the ultimate finite resource, but the remembering self ignores that reality” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“I had stumbled onto a significant fact of the human condition: the feedback to which life exposes us is perverse. Because we… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“people who spend their time, and earn their living, studying a particular topic produce poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“mental life—today I would speak of the life of System 2—is normally conducted at the pace of a comfortable walk, sometimes interrupted… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The laziness of System 2 is an important fact of life, and the observation that representativeness can block the application of an… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“One reason for the low correlations between individuals’ circumstances and their satisfaction with life is that both experienced happiness and life satisfaction… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Of course, not all slow thinking requires that form of intense concentration and effortful computation—I did the best thinking of my life… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
“A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share
