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Thinker · 10 quotes
10 sourced quotes by Daniel Kahneman on mind & self-awareness, media, speech & public opinion, governance & administration, work, excellence & success, emotions & self-control, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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Although humans are not irrational, they often need help to make more accurate judgements and better decisions. [...] [They] also need protection from others who deliberately exploit their weaknesses [...].
No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. [...] The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.
A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.
You should inform your gut and then trust it.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Many unfortunate human situations unfold [...] where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this kind often turns manageable failures into disasters.
The first advice is to slow down, and not follow your first impulses.