Daniel Kahneman

I mean, I thought I'd be an academic, but not psychology specifically.

Almost everything about working with him brings a smile to my face.

You know, he was a very unusual person.

Most people who knew him thought that he was the smartest person that ever met him.

And in fact, the famous psychologist Dick Nisbet said that it's sort of an intelligence test.

He said that when you are with Amos, how long does it take you to figure out that he's smarter than you are?

And the faster you figure that out, the smarter you are.

So, yeah, he was super bright and very, very funny.

He joked a lot.

He laughed a lot at his own jokes, and that was infectious.

When I was with him, I was very funny, too.

More than half of the laughs of my lifetime I've had during the 10 years I worked with him.

so ambiguous and it means so many things to many people, but one sensible interpretation of it is that it's got to do with your emotions, with how you feel, with the emotional tone of your life, whether it's a happy life, you know, it's pleasant to be you.

Life satisfaction is a completely different thing.

I mean, life satisfaction is how you feel about your life when you think about your life.

And most of the time, we don't think about your life.

You just live.

But, you know, sometimes you sort of look.

And that's when you determine how satisfied you are.

That's life satisfaction.