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Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Israeli - Psychologist | March 5, 1934 -

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.

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Blind Know Little Blindness Idea

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

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Positive You Healthy Wonderful Thing

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

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People Think Economists Watch About

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

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Good Decision Believe Think Way Us

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.

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Life Good Money People Good Life

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.

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Optimism People Rest Feel You Lucky

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

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Good Better Political Possible Been

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.

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Age Planning Thinking Study Just

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.

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Planning Better Plan You Know Will

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.

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People Pie More Difficult Over Much

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

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Focus Isolation Look Risk Individual

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

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Good Time Down Reflect Good Idea

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