I’ve always felt ideas were a dime a dozen. If you had one that didn’t work out, you should not fight too hard to save it, just go find another.
—Daniel Kahneman
Facts that challenge basic assumptions—and thereby threaten people’s livelihood and self-esteem—are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.
—Daniel Kahneman
You should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are.
—Daniel Kahneman
What you should learn when you make a mistake because you did not anticipate something is that the world is difficult to anticipate. That’s the correct lesson to learn from surprises: that the world is surprising.
—Daniel Kahneman
It is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than your own.
—Daniel Kahneman
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