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Daniel Kahneman: What is most striking about the event
is really that the diversity.
It's -- and that diversity becomes very meaningful
when you hear all the citations of different kinds of people,
each with their own individual story.
You know, no two are alike.
And it makes sense; it's the mosaic of this country.
I've had a long career as a psychologist,
and I have worked mainly in the study
of judgment and decision-making.
And our work has been picked up in many other disciplines,
so that, I think, is why I was being honored,
because -- just --
because everybody's interested in thinking,
and thinking is what I've studied.
I work has more resonance than many other psychological studies
that are just as important and as good within their field.
No, it is very striking, actually,
the ability of the United States to attract talent,
and high-level talent.
It has been absolutely essential, I think,
to the scientific and cultural movement in this country,
and it would be terrible to lose that.
And an open immigration policy is a part of it,
and you can see that when --
when graduate students go elsewhere
to get their doctorates,
the United States loses,
and this is something that is happening now.
Europe is becoming more attractive relative to us,
and that has to be fixed.
The main thing that happened to me --
largely having a vague idea
and then following it through until it --
until it blossomed into something that was meaningful.
And you have to have that sense
that this a lead that's worth pursuing.
And I've been lucky in those.
You wish for luck because luck
is going to have a lot to do with what happens to them.
It's not only hard work and it's not only talent;
you also need to be lucky, and I feel I've been very lucky.