Daniel Kahneman Quotes About Optimism

Quotes about: Optimism

• Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Optimistic, People, Optimism

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.290, Macmillan

• I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Fate, Successful

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.299, Macmillan

• However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Powerful, Organization, Optimism

• When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Optimism, May, Action

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.291, Macmillan

• One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Optimism, Decision

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

• Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Organization, Optimism, Able

  "Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Part 1): Daniel Kahneman" by Daniel Kahneman, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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