If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
From Daniel Kahneman
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.
If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.
Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
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