We Deeply Want To Be

We Are Very Influenced By Completely Automatic Things That We Have No Control Over, And We Don't Know We're Doing It.

You Should Not Take Your Intuitions At Face Value.

Researchers Who Studied A Thousand Dutch Vacationers Concluded That By Far The Greatest Amount Of Happiness Extracted From The Vacation Is Derived From The Anticipation Period.

A General Limitation Of The Human Mind Is Its Imperfect Ability To Reconstruct Past States Of Knowledge, Or Beliefs That Have Changed. Once You Adopt A New View Of The World (or Any Part Of It), You Immediately Lose Much Of Your Ability To Recall What You Used To Believe Before Your Mind Changed.

You Can Always Find An Evolutionary Quotation For Anything. But The Question Is Whether It's Functional, Which Is Not The Same As Being Evolutionary.