Overcoming the focusing illusion is key to achieving a…
Overcoming the focusing illusion is key to achieving a good life. It will enable you to avoid many stupid decisions.
— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · Art of the Good Life: Clear Thinking for Business and a Better Life by Rolf Dobelli
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First: will this matter in five hours, five days, five weeks, five years? Second, the one I lean on hardest — the focusing illusion, which Kahneman summed up as nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. The thing looms enormous only because you are staring at it; widen the lens to a whole life and most of today's catastrophe shrinks to a footnote. Mood and company. Mood is the master key — good ideas matter, but it is your mood that decides whether you execute them well or badly. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)