“The moral is significant: when System 2 is otherwise engaged, we will believe almost anything. System 1 is gullible and biased to believe, System 2 is in charge of doubting and unbelieving, but System 2 is sometimes busy, and often lazy. Indeed,”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt.”
― The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
― The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between gaining and giving up. Their problem is that all their choices are between losses. Money that is spent on one good is the loss of another good that could have been purchased instead. For the poor, costs are losses.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The propensity to dwell on failure and mistakes, and an inability to shut out the outside world are, in his mind, the biggest psychological impediments for his female players, and they directly affect performance and confidence on the court.”
― The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
― The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
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