If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
Interpretation
Clear communication is more effective than using complicated language.
This quote emphasizes the importance of simplicity in communication. Daniel Kahneman suggests that in order to be perceived as credible and intelligent, one should prioritize clarity and straightforwardness over complexity, as simpler language can convey ideas more effectively and resonate better with others.
In practice
During a presentation at work, a speaker might use this quote to emphasize the importance of clear language when conveying ideas.
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.
Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.
Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.
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