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

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

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

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.

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.