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.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

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.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.