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

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.