True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct.

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

Plans are best-case scenarios.

Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.

The agent of economic theory is rational, selfish, and his tastes do not change.

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Threats are privileged above opportunities, as they should be.

In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.