This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing th… - Daniel Kahneman

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.

Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called “engaged.” They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions.