Thinking, Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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Major New York Times Bestseller More than 2. 6 million copies sold One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project- A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional, System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking.

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    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Dimensions- 5. 4" W x 8. 2" H x 1. 5" D
    • Genre- Science
    • Publisher- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Publication date- 04-02-2013
    • Page count- 512
    • ISBN- 9780374533557
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2 years ago
from DC Metro

Ten top ideas in the book

1. The brain operates using two systems of thinking, called System 1 (fast, intuitive, and emotional) and System 2 (slow, deliberate, and logical). 2. System 1 thinking is the default mode of the brain, and it requires little effort or conscious attention. 3. System 2 thinking is more deliberate and requires conscious effort, but it is also more accurate and reliable. 4. Our intuitive judgments and decisions are often biased by various factors, such as heuristics (mental shortcuts) and cognitive biases. 5. One of the most powerful cognitive biases is the confirmation bias, which leads us to seek out information that confirms our existing beliefs and ignore information that contradicts them. 6. Another powerful cognitive bias is the availability heuristic, which leads us to judge the likelihood of events based on how easily we can recall examples of them. 7. The framing effect shows that the way a question or issue is presented can significantly influence our decisions and judgments. 8. Kahneman's research on prospect theory shows that people are more sensitive to losses than to gains, and they are willing to take greater risks to avoid losses than to achieve gains. 9. The endowment effect shows that people value things more when they own them, and they are often reluctant to give them up even if offered a fair price. 10. Kahneman argues that we can improve our decision-making by becoming more aware of our biases and heuristics, engaging in more System 2 thinking, and seeking out diverse perspectives and information.

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2 years ago

Mandatory Work Read

I’m sure that many people would gain something from a book like this, but the material was so dry that it took forever to finish.

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4 years ago
from Bennington, VT

Intelligent Author, Uninteresting Writing Style

I could only get through a few chapters of the book. I was unable to find myself staying attentive to the writing style of the book to keep me going. The book covers topics of sociology that interested me but the author seemed to write in such a way that tried to show off their intelligence rather than write a book that was interesting to the masses.

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