Gaurav

“Happiness begins within.’ Money, social status, plastic surgery, beautiful houses, powerful positions – none of these will bring you happiness. Lasting happiness comes only from serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin.1”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“people agreed to represent imaginary goods – goods that do not exist in the present – with a special kind of money they called ‘credit’. Credit enables us to build the present at the expense of the future. It’s founded on the assumption that our future resources are sure to be far more abundant than our present resources. A host of new and wonderful opportunities open up if we can build things in the present using future income.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“This trust is the sole backing for most of the money in the world.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“our mind is strongly biased toward causal explanations and does not deal well with “mere statistics.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow