It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.