Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed..

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of h….

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian….

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 nor….

When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are uns….

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true..

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time..

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

If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can d….

Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Wr….

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize….

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes..

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality..

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance..

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to..

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future..

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness..

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Ma….

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery..

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained..