Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

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

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

... 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.

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.