Daniel Kahneman

So it's clear that, you know, that was my calling.

And so that's one significant memory of my childhood.

I think so.

I think so.

I mean, you know, it's always had that point of view that later as a teenager, I was, you know, interested in all the philosophical issues like, you know, does God exist and what's good and bad and stuff like that?

And why shouldn't we masturbate?

You know, serious questions.

But I discovered that actually...

I was less interested in the question of whether or not God exists than in why do people believe that he exists.

That I thought was interesting.

And I wasn't particularly interested in the question of what's good or bad, but I was really interested in what makes people angry and indignant.

So I've had the psychological point of view since my childhood.

No, not the most so in my career.

You know, and I wasn't sure, actually, that I would do psychology.

When I took a vocational exam to tell me what I was good at, and psychology and economics turned out, but, you know, that was unexpected.

I was...

And then I took psychology as an undergraduate and mathematics, at which I was not particularly good.

And no, it's not that I knew at the time that I had that calling to be a psychologist.

It didn't occur to me.

I thought I'd be a professor in one thing or another.