“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“A team of researchers at the University of Oregon explored the link between cognitive control and intelligence in several ways, including an… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The conclusion is straightforward: self-control requires attention and effort. Another way of saying this is that controlling thoughts and behaviors is one… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced six-cent-mihaly) has done more than anyone else to study this state of effortless attending, and the name… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“automatic functions of System 1, but they depend on the allocation of some attention to the relevant stimulus. The authors note that… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Systems 1 and 2 are both active whenever we are awake. System 1 runs automatically and System 2 is normally in a… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that normally attract attention. The most dramatic demonstration was offered… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
