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

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

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….

Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make….

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

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….

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..

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

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….

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….

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..

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….

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

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

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

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to con….

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinio….

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions.

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….

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

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….