We Are Prone To Overestimate How Much

I Would Not Advise People To Buy A Car Or House Without Making A List. You Will Probably Improve Your Intuitions By Making A List And Then Sleeping On It.

Doubting What You See Is A Very Odd Experience. And Doubting What You Remember Is A Little Less Odd Than Doubting What You See. But It's Also A Pretty Odd Experience, Because Some Memories Come With A Very Compelling Sense Of Truth About Them, And That Happens To Be The Case Even For Memories That Are Not True.

Except For Some Effects That I Attribute Mostly To Age, My Intuitive Thinking Is Just As Prone To Overconfidence, Extreme Predictions, And The Planning Fallacy As It Was Before I Made A Study Of These Issues.

Being Wealthy Is Often A Powerful Predictor That People Spend Less Time Doing Pleasurable Things And More Time Doing Compulsory Things And Feeling Stressed.

Our Memory Tells Us Stories, That Is, What We Get To Keep From Our Experiences Is A Story.