Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahnemanis an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth5 March 1934
CountryIsrael
optimistic healthy wonderful
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
anticipation enjoyable activity
Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.
memories independent views
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public’s mind. It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media. Because public interest is most easily aroused by dramatic events and by celebrities, media feeding frenzies are common
thinking trends observation
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
emotional thinking attention
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
roles world events
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
decision concerned
In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.
worry people personality
People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.
past ideas ease
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
effort decision should
The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
people problem expertise
One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.
keys effort decision
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.
numbers facts would-be
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
ideas feelings intuition
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.