Quotes About Introspection

Her favorite position is beside herself, and her favorite sport is jumping to conclusions.

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett

I don't spend a lot of time taking polls around the world to tell me what I think is the right way to act. I've just got to know how I feel" (George W. Bush, November 2002).

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder.

We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again.

it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

How closely does System 2 monitor the suggestions of System 1? His reasoning was that we know a significant fact about anyone who says that the ball costs 10¢: that person did not actively check whether the answer was correct, and her System 2 endorsed an intuitive answer that it could have rejected with a small investment of effort.

Recognize the signs that you are in a cognitive minefield, slow down, and ask for reinforcement of system 2.

You have now been introduced to that stranger in you, which may be in control of much of what you do, although you rarely have a glimpse of it.

The shape of the response was an inverted V. As you experienced it if you tried Add-1 or Add-3, effort builds up with every added digit that you hear, reaches an almost intolerable peak as you rush to produce a transformed string during and immediately after the pause, and relaxes gradually as you "unload" your short-term memory.

Close your eyes.

two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit from the informed opinions of others.

Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times

The notion that we have limited access to the workings of our minds is difficult to accept because, naturally, it is alien to our experience, but it is true: you know far less about yourself than you feel you do.

it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

If a satisfactory answer to a hard question is not found quickly, System 1 will find a related question that is easier and will answer it. I

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

The way to block errors that originate in System 1 is simple in principle: recognize the signs that you are in a cognitive minefield, slow down, and ask for reinforcement from System 2. This is how you will proceed when you next encounter the Müller-Lyer illusion. When you see lines with fins pointing in different directions, you will recognize the situation as one in which you should not trust your impressions of length.

Self-criticism is one of the functions of System 2.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior

an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behaviours than from hearing surprising facts from the behaviour of others

you should know that correcting your intuitions may complicate your life.