When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

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.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

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