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

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.

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

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

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.