One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.
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.
In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.