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Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Average Average People Challenges Decisions Difference Disproportionate Entrepreneurs Got Inventors Leaders Lives Make Make A Difference Military Optimistic Our Our Lives People Play Political Risks Role Seeking Shaping Taking Taking Risks Where

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We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Around Because Believe Decision Decisions Each Even Good Made Make More Much Other Our Rational Reasons Than Them Think Us Way

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There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Decisions Lot Make People Randomness

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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.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Best Big Context Decisions Feelings Friends Help Impressed Overly Serve Share Sometimes Them Those Understand Who Will You Your

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Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Decisions Feel Know Like Likely Makers Most Need Normally People Policy Psychology Right Sociology Think Way

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

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Better Decisions Fewer Investors Just Made Us Would

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People are decisions and actions.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Actions Decisions People

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I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Advances Age Agriculture Any Bad Beyond Decisions Fields Great Handle Information Information Age Leads Less Many Medicine More Much Often Other Overload Problem Should Than Think Too Too Much Transportation Two Us World Yielded

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If you're making a bunch of little decisions - like, do I read this email now or later? Do I file it? Do I forward it? Do I have to get more information? Do I put it in the spam folder? - that's a handful of decisions right there, and you haven't done anything meaningful. It puts us into a brain state of decision fatigue.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Anything Brain Bunch Decision Decisions Done Email Fatigue File Forward Get Handful Information Later Like Little Making Meaningful More Now Put Puts Read Right Spam State Us You

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If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.

~Daniel Suarez

Topics: Capable Citizen Decisions Life Literacy Lives Lot Making Modern New Our Our Lives Outcome Rules Software Technology Test Want World You Your

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