If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.