This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.