So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
Interpretation
Your emotions are influenced by your thoughts and focus.
Daniel Kahneman emphasizes the significant impact that one's mental focus and thoughts have on their emotional well-being. By directing attention to positive or negative stimuli, individuals can alter their emotional states, highlighting the connection between cognition and feelings.
In practice
In a presentation about mental health, one could use this quote to illustrate the relationship between thought patterns and emotional states.
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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