I'm not a great believer in self-help.

Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

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.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.