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Stable Intellectual Tastes
- Daniel Kahneman keeps core tastes and methodological preferences unchanged across his life, even when evidence shifts.
- He values holistic, less-precise theories over forced precision and calls this a stable personal taste.
Prefer Approximate Truth Over Precise Error
- Prefer being approximately right rather than precisely wrong when choosing theoretical positions.
- Taking strong extreme positions can help debate, but vagueness often yields more reliable, useful conclusions.
Waiting By The Nobel Phone
- Kahneman recounts waiting by the phone for the Nobel committee and the eventual call interrupting his wife's exercise.
- He walked in and simply told her he got the prize, marking an unforgettable day.