Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The main benefit of optimism is resilience in the face of setback.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than… — 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
