Endlessly amused by people's minds.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a fascination with the complexities of human thought and behavior.
Daniel Kahneman expresses an appreciation for the intricate workings of human minds, highlighting the endless curiosity and amusement that can be derived from observing how people think and make decisions. This perspective suggests that understanding the nuances of human psychology can be both enlightening and entertaining, revealing the unpredictable nature of human reasoning.
In practice
In a psychology lecture discussing cognitive biases, this quote could illustrate the complexity of human decision-making.
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.
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
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