... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question. Daniel Kahneman More Quotes by Daniel Kahneman More Quotes From Daniel Kahneman The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved. Daniel Kahneman dominance argument emotion People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel. Daniel Kahneman hate loss ideas If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable. Daniel Kahneman giving people ideas The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college. Daniel Kahneman college hurt thinking Most people are highly optimistic most of the time. Daniel Kahneman optimistic people Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong. Daniel Kahneman diagnosis feedback people People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. Daniel Kahneman selfish choices people The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. Daniel Kahneman quality stories littles Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true. Daniel Kahneman doubt littles memories Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals. Daniel Kahneman extremes individual groups One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. Daniel Kahneman optimism decision thinking If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe. Daniel Kahneman things-that-are-hard reflecting believe I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past. Daniel Kahneman intuition experts past Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors. Daniel Kahneman creativity sadness errors It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. Daniel Kahneman optimistic healthy wonderful Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference. Daniel Kahneman optimistic odds mean Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled. Daniel Kahneman fighting business thinking One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress. Daniel Kahneman progress get-better past We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine. Daniel Kahneman cat dog mind 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. Daniel Kahneman coaching wave people
