System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. The operations of System 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice, and concentration. — *location: 275* ^ref-55392 --- The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness. — *location: 334* ^ref-40382 --- The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own. — *location: 406* ^ref-23555 --- Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while performing the other. People who do well on these tests tend to do well on tests of general intelligence. However, the ability to control attention is not simply a measure of intelligence; measures of efficiency in the control of attention predict performance of air traffic controllers and of Israeli Air Force pilots beyond the effects of intelligence. — *location: 559* ^ref-42530 --- Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort. — *location: 599* ^ref-61278 --- In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand. — *location: 613* ^ref-53976 --- Baumeister’s group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion. — *location: 628* ^ref-35191 --- It suggests that when people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound. If System 1 is involved, the conclusion comes first and the arguments follow. — *location: 700* ^ref-40782 --- 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. — *location: 713* ^ref-56548 --- Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called “engaged.” They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions. The psychologist Keith Stanovich would call them more rational. — *location: 722* ^ref-3560 --- This remarkable priming phenomenon—the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect. — *location: 851* ^ref-61730 --- The general theme of these findings is that the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others. — *location: 891* ^ref-4250 --- A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. — *location: 1002* ^ref-46542 --- Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. — *location: 1122* ^ref-55123 ---