Daniel Kahneman Quotes About Intuition

Quotes about: Intuition

• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, Feelings, Intuition

• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Sadness, Creativity, Errors

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.69, Macmillan

• I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Past, Intuition, Experts

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, Powerful, Intuition

• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, Promise, Intuition

  "Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Olivier Sibony and Dan Lovallo, www.mckinsey.com. March 2010.

• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Sleep, People, Car

• There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Intuition, Trust Your Intuition, Conditions

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

• When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Decision, Intuition, Needs

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

• You should not take your intuitions at face value.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Intuition, Faces, Should

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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