I was lucky enough to be in the group that ran Dr. Kahneman's talk at Google, so I was at lunch with him & 8 or so others. I asked him, "Dr. Kahneman, you've b

I was lucky enough to be in the group that ran Dr. Kahneman's talk at Google, so I was at lunch with him & 8 or so others. I asked him, "Dr. Kahneman, you've been writing about thinking for 40 years. Do you think you've changed how people think at all?" He said, "No, not even me." He proceeded to tell a story where he fell into the "eloquence trap" that he, himself, wrote about: a doctor said something, and he said to his daughter, "that doctor is very impressive!" She'd learned his lessons better than he had: she said that what mattered was how much experience the doctor had in this particular area, not how good she sounded.