A story is about significant events and memorable moments, not about time passing. - Daniel Kahneman

An inability to be guided by a “healthy fear” of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.

To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.

Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion — and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined. The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score and governs what we learn from living, and it is the one that makes decisions. What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self.