To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions.

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

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'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….

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

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

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..