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“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
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“Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.”
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“We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.”
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“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
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“Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.”
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“The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory”
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“One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.”
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“Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.”
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“It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.”
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“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.”
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“Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.”
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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
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“There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.”
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“We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.”
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“People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.”
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“A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.”
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“Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.”
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“It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.”
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“This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”
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“A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.”
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“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
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“Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.”
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“When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.”
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“If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.”
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“Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.”
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“Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.”
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“Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.”
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“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.”
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“We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.”
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“When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.”
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