“An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality—but it is not what people and organizations want.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Tag: Thinking Fast and Slow
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“Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able to gain the trust of clients.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“When faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“People can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“If you have been there all your life and do not travel much, living in California is like having ten toes: nice, but not something one thinks much about.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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