Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Interpretation
Laziness is an inherent part of human nature that is difficult to overcome.
In this quote, Daniel Kahneman expresses the idea that laziness is a fundamental aspect of human behavior, suggesting that it is ingrained in our psychology. This notion implies that overcoming laziness requires conscious effort and awareness of our natural tendencies, highlighting the challenges we face in striving for productivity and motivation.
In practice
During a motivational speech about productivity, a speaker might use this quote to highlight the struggle against human tendencies.
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.
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.
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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