Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.