There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.