A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to… — 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
