Daniel Kahneman Quotes About Intuition
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You should not take your intuitions at face value.
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An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.
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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.
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There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.
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I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.
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We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.
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When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.
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Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.
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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.
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