The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

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

Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.