Daniel Kahneman Quotes

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• In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
• It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
• It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.
• It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
• Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
• Most 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…
• Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
• My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
• Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.
• Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.
• People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
• People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
• Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
• The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
• The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
• The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
• There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
• There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
• Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
• True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

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