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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
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
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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
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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
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Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. Daniel Kahneman
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When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off. Daniel Kahneman
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People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability. Daniel Kahneman
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised. Daniel Kahneman
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There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities. Daniel Kahneman
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All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions. Daniel Kahneman
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The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing. Daniel Kahneman
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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it. Daniel Kahneman
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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
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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. Daniel Kahneman
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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
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We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. Daniel Kahneman
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People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings. Daniel Kahneman
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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
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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; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace. Daniel Kahneman
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One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important. Daniel Kahneman
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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
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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. Daniel Kahneman
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An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same. Daniel Kahneman
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I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000. Daniel Kahneman
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Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally. Daniel Kahneman
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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all. Daniel Kahneman
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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works. Daniel Kahneman
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