Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
Interpretation
Intelligence encompasses both reasoning skills and the ability to access and focus on relevant information.
This quote by Daniel Kahneman emphasizes that intelligence is not solely about logical reasoning or problem-solving; it also involves the capacity to retrieve pertinent information from memory and to concentrate one's attention effectively. This highlights the multifaceted nature of intelligence, where both cognitive skills and attentional control play crucial roles in informed decision-making.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the nature of intelligence in an educational seminar.
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.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.
One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It's the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong, because then you've discovered something new.
Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality
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