Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Interpretation
Laziness is an inherent part of human nature that is difficult to overcome.
In this quote, Daniel Kahneman expresses the idea that laziness is a fundamental aspect of human behavior, suggesting that it is ingrained in our psychology. This notion implies that overcoming laziness requires conscious effort and awareness of our natural tendencies, highlighting the challenges we face in striving for productivity and motivation.
In practice
During a motivational speech about productivity, a speaker might use this quote to highlight the struggle against human tendencies.
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.
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.
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.
In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?
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