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Daniel Kahneman is a renowned psychologist known for his work in behavioral economics and decision theory. Born on March 5, 1934, he is of Israeli descent and has worked and studied in Israel, the United States, and Canada. Kahneman's research has had a profound impact on modern economics, psychology, and business decision-making.

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“The notion that we have limited access to the workings of our minds is difficult to accept because, naturally, it is alien to our experience, but it is true: you know far less about yourself than you feel you do.”

Thinking Mind Knowledge Awareness Yourself

Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”

Thinking Focus Importance Priorities Biases Heuristics Focusing Illusion

Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.”

Thinking Fighting Business Risk Sea Danger Ships Managers Controlled Captains Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.”

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“One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.”

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“People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.”

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Author:Daniel Kahneman

“When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.”

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“Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.”

Thinking Long Happens Hours Sleep Walks Imagine Minutes Fronts Ten Noses Daylight Smartphones Long Walks

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“Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.”

Thinking Important Life Is

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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.”

Thinking Book Cases Written

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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.”

Thinking States Attention Emotional Pay Attention

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

People Thinking Watches Ought Economist Psychologist

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“It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.”

Thinking Observation Trends

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“It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.”

Thinking Would Be Grew Grew Up Professors

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“Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.”

Thinking Experts

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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.”

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Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.”

Thinking Self Feelings Remember Satisfaction Contrast Live Your Life

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.”

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Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.”

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“We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.”

People Thinking Knows Want Too Much

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“The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.”

Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.”

Thinking Inspiration Motivation Memories Our Future

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.”

Thinking Feelings Deliberate

Author:Daniel Kahneman

About the Author

Born: March 5, 1934
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 236

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