"Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the..."
- Daniel Kahneman
"The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact."
"The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained."
"Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativ..."
"The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory."
"Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."
"Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero."
"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."
"At work here is that powerful WYSIATI ("what you see is all there is") rule. You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possib..."
"Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else."