... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

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.

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

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

When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.