Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

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

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

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