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

Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

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