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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Above Control Determined Factors Family Feeling Friendships Happiness Health How Like Relationships Spend Time You Your

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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.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Control Decide Emotion Feeling Happen Happens Ideas Intuition Many Us

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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: About Beautiful Devices Experts Fails Failures How Lot Mechanism Mind Tell Those Well Work Works You

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We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Going Narrow Very View

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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.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Assumes Economic Far Focused Future Idea Incompatible Problem Rationality See Theory Time Very

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The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Decision Effort Getting Importance Invested Right Should

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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Deliberate Feeling Slow Something Thinking You

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I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Estimate Experienced Fallible Happiness Hold Life Matters Only Proposed Satisfaction True True Happiness Used View Which

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Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: About Also Believe Biased Direction Effect Explain Familiar Favor Good Good Things Halo Like Many Most Much Ourselves Particular Person Prone Someone Suppose Then Things Us Very Will You

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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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Topics: Automatic Control Doing Influenced Know No Control Over Things Very

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 5th, 1934

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