Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

As a way to live your life, however, continuous vigilance is not necessarily good, and it is certainly impractical. Constantly questioning our own thinking would be impossibly tedious, and System 2 is much too slow and inefficient to serve as a substitute for System 1 in making routine decisions. 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.

that the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.