So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

The brain's scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. You'd better pay very serious attention to them.

There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.