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• Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger…
• We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
• The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
• The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
• However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than…
• If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
• We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we…
• When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
• The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
• A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.…
• It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who…
• People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social…

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