Quotes About Experience

The feelings associated with different activities suggest that another way to improve experience is to switch time from passive leisure, such as TV watching, to more active forms of leisure, including socializing and exercise.

perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.

The brief pleasure of a cool breeze on a hot day may make you slightly more positive and optimistic about whatever you are evaluating at that time.

The essential feature of this internal signal is that the sense of coherence is part of the experience of judgment. It is not contingent on a real outcome. As a result, the internal signal is just as available for nonverifiable judgments as it is for real, verifiable ones. This explains why making a judgment about a fictitious character like Gambardi feels very much the same as does making a judgment about the real world.

What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self.

Expertise is not a single skill; it is a collection of skills, and the same professional may be highly expert in some of the tasks in her domain while remaining a novice in others.

You seem to be devoting your entire vacation to the construction of memories. Perhaps you should put away the camera and enjoy the moment, even if it is not very memorable?

She says experience has taught her that criticism is more effective than praise. What she doesn't understand is that it's all due to regression to the mean.

The perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.

We will not learn to understand regression from experience. Even when a regression is identified, as we saw in the story of the flight instructors, it will be given a causal interpretation that is almost always wrong.

If the individual has relevant expertise, she will recognize the situation, and the intuitive solution that comes to her mind is likely to be correct. This

Regla del pico final: la estimación en retrospectiva global estaba bien predicha por el valor medio del nivel de dolor manifestado en el peor momento de la experiencia y al terminar esta. • Olvido de la duración: la duración del procedimiento no tuvo efecto alguno sobre las estimaciones del dolor total.

You think with your body, not with your brain.

The experience of familiarity has a simple but powerful quality of 'pastness' that seems to indicate that it is a direct reflection of prior experience.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

People in their 30s know where the world is going because they're going to do it. I'm in my 80s so I have no idea.

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

We have inherited from our ancestors a great facility to learn when to be afraid. Indeed, one experience is often sufficient to establish a long term aversion and fear.

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.

Wir sind immer in Geschichten

Ich habe herausgefunden, dass der Mensch bereit ist, Unbill zu erfahren, aber viel Erkenntnis entgeht ihm, weil er den Schmerz fürchtet.

Wer weit reise, sagte er, erfahre viele Dinge. Ein paar davon über sich selbst.

Chi viaggia in posti lontani, disse, apprende molte cose. Qualcuna anche su se stesso.

Humboldt disse che anche lui voleva viaggiare. Forster annuì. È un desiderio che provano in tanti, disse. E tutti se ne pentono. Perché? Perché non si ritorna mai.