Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.