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In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand.

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Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.

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Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called “engaged.” They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions.

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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 call the operation of answering one question in place of another substitution.

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A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

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The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

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The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score and governs what we learn from living, and it is the one that makes decisions. 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.

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Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect more information.

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The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.

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if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.

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it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

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We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

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To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability.

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You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding.

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If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague Danny Oppenheimer refuted a myth prevalent among undergraduates about the vocabulary that professors find most impressive. In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.

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However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

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The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.

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Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.

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To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.

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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.

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Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

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Jonathan Haidt said in another context, “The emotional tail wags the rational dog.

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higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life.

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A simple rule can help: before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very brief summary of their position. This procedure makes good use of the value of the diversity of knowledge and opinion in the group. The standard practice of open discussion gives too much weight to the opinions of those who speak early and assertively, causing others to line up behind them.

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a stable relationship requires that good interactions outnumber bad interactions by at least 5 to 1.

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