Quotes by Daniel Goldstein - Page 1

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Exercise
Self
Self Discipline
Stronger
Thinking
Like
Muscle
More
Gets
Something
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I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Concerned
Fluffy
Sounds
The Problem With
Trivial
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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
High School
Professors
Science Fiction
Writer
Became
Fiction Writer
Dropped
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One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Better Future
Human Brain
Actions
Evolved
Primary
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Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Notion
Preference
Becomes
Economists
Explain
Nice Way
Psychologists
Selves
Tendency
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When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Crime
Instance
Linked
Location
Plot
Geographical
Map
Objective
Offender
Profiling
Sites
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Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Arms
Heroic
Weak
Lift
Mouth
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I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Columbia
Columbia University
Devices
Dollars
Pages
Papers
Starving
Phase
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Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Algebra
Chemistry
Good Relationship
Grounding
Healthy
Information
Literature
People
Productive Life
Psychology
Young
Life Good Your
Life Good Mind
Good Relationships
Guide
Owner
Unlike
Manual
Relationships
Scientific
Young People
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If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Discipline
Exercise
Self
Self Discipline
Impossible Yourself Your
Physically
Achieving
Stick
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