People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.