An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true. - Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

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Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.

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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

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Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

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After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

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Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

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