Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.
Good customers want good quality service. Great customers want it even more.