Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

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

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.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

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.