Book Titles

…it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

The mental work that produces impressions, intuitions, and many decisions goes on in silence in our mind.

…you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

It is the mark of effortful activities that they interfere with each other, which is why it is difficult or impossible to conduct several at once.

Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that normally attract attention.

…learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high.

…people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind.

As you become more skilled in a task, its demand for energy diminishes.

In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built into our nature.

…switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure.