In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.

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

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

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

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

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.