Daniel Kahneman Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Law, Skills, People

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.39, Macmillan

• Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Sadness, Creativity, Errors

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.69, Macmillan

• The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Effort, Decision, Should

• The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Self, Effort, Attention

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.46, Macmillan

• Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Keys, Choices, Effort

• Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Effort, Arguing, Coast

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