People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

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.

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.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.