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.
O my God, teach me to be generous_x000D_ to serve you as you deserve to be served_x000D_ to give without counting the cost_x000D_ to fight without fear of being wounded_x000D_ to work without seeking rest_x000D_ and to spend myself without expecting any reward_x000D_ but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will._x000D_ Amen
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.
I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.
Truth is something which you must see immediately β and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.
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