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

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

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.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

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.