We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

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.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.