Quotes About Awareness

Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

A nation has no conscience. How can it be aroused? A eunuch in bed with a doll is not disturbed.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.

One of the main functions of System 2 is to monitor and control thoughts and actions "suggested" by System 1

For example, the question "Do you now feel a slight numbness in your left leg?" always prompts quite a few people to report that their left leg does indeed feel a little strange.

Many people find the priming results unbelievable, because they do not correspond to subjective experience. Many others find the results upsetting, because they threaten the subjective sense of agency and autonomy. If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware of it, how free are you? Anchoring

best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Why did you stop working just now?" The answer from inside the lab was often, "How did you know?" to which we would reply, "We have a window to your soul.

If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware of it, how free are you?

Lo mejor que podemos hacer es llegar a un compromiso: aprender a reconocer situaciones en las que los errores sean probables y esforzarnos en evitar errores importantes cuando están en juego cosas de primer orden. La premisa de este libro es que es más fácil reconocer los errores de otros que los nuestros.

answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

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

The idea of old age had not come to their conscious awareness, but their actions had changed nevertheless. This remarkable priming phenomenon—the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.

Indeed, the mere exposure effect is actually stronger for stimuli that the individual never consciously sees

the mystery of knowing without knowing is not a distinctive feature of intuition; it is the norm of mental life.

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puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

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