Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman

… sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn’t stay silent if it doesn’t have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

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Mind

Sometimes

A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Law

People

Skills

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

Believe

Past

Views

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

Differences

Weekdays

Weekend

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

Accepting

Loss

Would Be

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic… As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

Definitions

Optimistic

Risk

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

Believe

People

Way

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

Opportunity

Practice

Skills

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Adaptation

Attention

Process

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

Facts

Illusion

World

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Ability

Able

Accepting

Action

Activity

Adaptation

Age

Agreement

Alternatives

Amount

Amused

Analysis

Angry

Animal

Answers

Anticipation

Arguing

Argument

Assuming

Attention

Average

Aversion

Bed

Belief

Believe

Bias

Biology

Blind

Blindness

Book

Boundaries

Brain

Built

Business

Car

Care

Cases

Cat

Causes

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Chance

Change

Cheerful

Children

Choices

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Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman

… sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn’t stay silent if it doesn’t have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic… As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

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