We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

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.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.