Kate Walters

“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.”
― Katty Kay, The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know

“Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“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.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“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,”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow