Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.

we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.

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.