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Active choosing has the advantage of overcoming inertia, inattention, and procrastination; choice architects can find out what people actually prefer, without having to guess.

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People work to counteract their own self-control problems, often by redesigning the architecture within which they make choices…

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Structuring choice sometimes means helping people to learn, so they can later make better choices on their own.

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As sweet as revenge may seen when you have been hurt, a sweeter, smarter choice is forgiveness.

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Conventional wisdom holds that people’s choices can be greatly influenced by the context or the framing of an offer.

By actively choosing endeavors that demand your total focus and skillfully using attention to make even inevitable rote chores more engaging, you can blur the distinction between work and play – a hallmark of the focused life.

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How you decide to spend your time and make other choices that affect your quality of life is closely bound up with attention…

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When you find yourself in a confusing situation with many possible choices to consider, sometimes the best thing to do is to find a key step you can take that will simplify things and move them forward.

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Many economic choices are gambles. Given our uncertain world, the difficult and interesting choices are always gambles of one kind or another.

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Paradoxically, it is unconscious processes that choose which stimuli to pass on to full consciousness.

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