Being optimistic Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.”

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“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.”

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“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.”

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Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

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“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.”

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Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;…

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“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.”

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Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

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