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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli Psychologist
Born: Mar 5, 1934
Life People Think Time Will You
Related authors: Abraham Maslow B. F. Skinner Carl Jung Erich Fromm Jordan Peterson Sigmund Freud Viktor E. Frankl Wayne Dyer
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks. Daniel Kahneman
Challenges Risks People Political Taking Risks Military Our Our Lives Seeking Inventors Entrepreneurs Shaping Leaders Taking Make Make A Difference Got Optimistic Role Difference Where Decisions Average Average People Disproportionate Lives Play
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know. Daniel Kahneman
Our Idea Know Blind Blindness How Very Little Designed
Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. Daniel Kahneman
Lose Unfair Rules Punished Follow Pricing Merchants Employers Policies Fairness Reduced Sales Expect Productivity Who Violate
Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate. Daniel Kahneman
You People Rest Some More Feel Genetically Bias Normal Optimism Optimistic Than Person Endowed Us Fortunate Lucky Lucky Person Hardly Need
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. Daniel Kahneman
News Bad Give Bad News Contain Priority Brains Mechanism Designed Humans
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. Daniel Kahneman
Positive You Wonderful Healthy Optimistic Wonderful Thing Keeps Thing Resilient
We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments. Daniel Kahneman
Our Generally Overconfident Judgments Opinions Impressions
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better. Daniel Kahneman
You Better Will Assume Outcome Follow Scenario Know Make Fallacy Which Plan Then Should Your Planning Even
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
Best You Sometimes Will Feelings Big Those Share Understand Context Overly Impressed Friends Decisions Them Your Help Who Serve
Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important. Daniel Kahneman
Life You Financial Burden Insecurity Important Think Mood Find Yes Very Maybe Satisfaction Income
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering. Daniel Kahneman
Loneliness Suffering Poverty Others Would Emotional Clearly Like Policy Reduce Source Elderly Certainly
Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish. Daniel Kahneman
Vanish Bias Hindsight Makes Surprises
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. Daniel Kahneman
Seems Attention Substantial Process Your Extent Adaptation
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
Control No Control Over Know Doing Very Influenced Automatic Things
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones. Daniel Kahneman
Nature Artificial Intelligence Intelligence AI Will Shortcuts Both True Biases Very Artificial Human Produce Necessarily Humans
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie. Daniel Kahneman
People Difficult Negotiations Easygoing More Tend Allocation Over Pie Because Losses Expanding Much Require Bargain Shrinking
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that. Daniel Kahneman
Society Rely Highly Clearly Know Fallible Decision-Making Should
When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity. Daniel Kahneman
Life Good People Money Prosperity Good Life Out Tends Idea Material Denmark Lot Same Themselves Successful Turns Evaluate Standard Compare Universal
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 Better Lost Past Sense One Thing Volatility Had Getting Getting Better In The Past Thing Things
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable. Daniel Kahneman
Day You Every Day People Money Miserable Every Changes Project Worst Possible Possible Thing Bad Constantly Following Bad Idea Count Idea Long-Term Because Losses Very Stocks Owning Short-Term Sensitive Your Thing
We think of our future as anticipated memories. Daniel Kahneman
Future Memories Think Our Anticipated
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
Age Made Before Thinking Extreme Intuitive Prone Some Except Study Mostly Attribute Fallacy Issues Effects Just Predictions Planning
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make. Daniel Kahneman
People Randomness Make Lot Decisions
You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person. Daniel Kahneman
You Cause Recognize Someone Something Know Surprised Person Really
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently. Daniel Kahneman
You Book Think Case Written Read Then Differently
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time. Daniel Kahneman
Time You Point Idea Well Makes How Question Done Psychology Ask
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