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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

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There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make. Daniel Kahneman

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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

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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

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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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Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. 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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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. 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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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

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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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. Daniel Kahneman

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