Endlessly amused by people's minds.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a fascination with the complexities of human thought and behavior.
Daniel Kahneman expresses an appreciation for the intricate workings of human minds, highlighting the endless curiosity and amusement that can be derived from observing how people think and make decisions. This perspective suggests that understanding the nuances of human psychology can be both enlightening and entertaining, revealing the unpredictable nature of human reasoning.
In practice
In a psychology lecture discussing cognitive biases, this quote could illustrate the complexity of human decision-making.
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.
Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
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