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.
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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.
Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!
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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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