A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays. Daniel Kahneman More Quotes by Daniel Kahneman More Quotes From Daniel Kahneman The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Daniel Kahneman use-of-time use way Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues. Daniel Kahneman issues age thinking We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that. Daniel Kahneman change believe past Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed. Daniel Kahneman powerful feelings people To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are. Daniel Kahneman errors emotional people Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions Daniel Kahneman machines jumping mind Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages. Daniel Kahneman luck knowing successful Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate. Daniel Kahneman deliberate feelings thinking The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich. Daniel Kahneman luck skills people Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period. Daniel Kahneman dutch vacation anticipation Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. Daniel Kahneman motivation inspiration years So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to. Daniel Kahneman emotional attention thinking If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept. Daniel Kahneman first-impression strong people Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. Daniel Kahneman self-esteem challenges people When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals. Daniel Kahneman individual clubs groups Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time. Daniel Kahneman family-relationship determined feelings If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality. Daniel Kahneman simple reality people We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action. Daniel Kahneman intuition powerful strong In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas. Daniel Kahneman rising should-have ideas Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity. Daniel Kahneman quality powerful stories
