We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that we often deny the randomness of life and instead ascribe meaning to events.
Daniel Kahneman emphasizes our tendency to overlook the random nature of life, which can lead us to believe that events have a predictable pattern or purpose. By rejecting the idea that much of what we experience is due to chance, we may misunderstand the complexity and uncertainty inherent in human existence. This perspective challenges us to reflect on how we interpret experiences and the inherent randomness of the world around us.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing uncertainty and unpredictability in our lives.
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.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesusβ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
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