We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

You should not take your intuitions at face value.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

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