Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

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

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

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

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.