Quotes from Daniel Kahneman

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.