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

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

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.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

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

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.