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.
I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.
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