Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.