How do people make the judgments and how do they assign decision weights? We start from two simple answers, then qualify them. Here are the oversimpl… - Daniel Kahneman

When the question is difficult and a skilled solution is not available, intuition still has a shot: an answer may come to mind quickly — but it is not an answer to the original question. The question that the executive faced (should I invest in Ford stock?) was difficult, but the answer to an easier and related question (do I like Ford cars?) came readily to his mind and determined his choice. This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end — the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad.

It is the of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.