I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.