We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are. Daniel Kahneman More Quotes by Daniel Kahneman More Quotes From Daniel Kahneman 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 The concept of happiness has to be reorganised. Daniel Kahneman concepts I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. Daniel Kahneman clever trying ideas We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it. Daniel Kahneman knows Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them. Daniel Kahneman decision feelings helping I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness. Daniel Kahneman satisfaction matter views I'm not a great believer in self-help. Daniel Kahneman self-help self helping Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat. Daniel Kahneman disagree combat couple If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it. Daniel Kahneman vacation night years Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen. Daniel Kahneman long-walks sleep thinking Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. Daniel Kahneman coast effort arguing Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident. Daniel Kahneman columnists political sports A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed. Daniel Kahneman views believe past We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it. Daniel Kahneman assuming problem ideas In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence. Daniel Kahneman overconfidence concerned decision Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception. Daniel Kahneman risk perception reality Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens. Daniel Kahneman stronger voting guy A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise. Daniel Kahneman accepting would-be loss When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses. Daniel Kahneman loss people thinking All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal. Daniel Kahneman memories mean past
