Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.

it is easier to recognizd other people's mistakes than our own

state of effortless attending, and the name he proposed for it, flow, has become part of the language. People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.”

People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

the effects of ego depletion could be undone by ingesting glucose,

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

David Hume reduced the principles of association to three: resemblance, contiguity in time and place, and causality.

This remarkable priming phenomenon—the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.