Laziness is built deep into our nature.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.