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The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

~Daniel Kahneman

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There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

~Daniel Kahneman

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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.

~Daniel Kahneman

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When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.

~Daniel Kahneman

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All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

~Daniel Kahneman

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If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

~Daniel Kahneman

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Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

~Daniel Kahneman

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There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive at business, but I don't know of one that grounds any of these in the science.

~Daniel Levitin

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I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.

~Daniel Levitin

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We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or Internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks - even a 15-minute break every two or three hours - make us more productive in the long run.

~Daniel Levitin

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