Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · How intuition and deliberate reasoning shape our decisions, and where our judgment goes wrong.
12 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.
What people said
Now I'm deliberately conscious about the decisions I take and retrace my thought process multiple times just to make sure that I haven't fallen pray to some of the cognitive biases.
Understanding how the 2 parts of the brain are often at odds with other, has vastly changed the way I think and helped me realize times I'm susceptible to bias and misunderstanding.
Thinking fast and slow had the biggest impact in changing how I think about a lot of things, epic study of how you’re predisposed to think and make decisions in a particular way.
This book has helped me recognize various cognitive biases and heuristics that I or the people around me are demonstrating.
it changed my life was to make me actually think more about the way my mind operates, the decisions I make and the way these decisions affect my life.
It has made me reflect upon why I think the way I do, helped me to remove most bias from my actions
This book helped me understand many aspects of design and sales that had been black boxes for me
Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, a book that radically changed the way I think
Excellent advice for life and it's changed how I view decisions and interactions.
The latter helped me internalise that my thinking, like most humans, is biased.
made me think about all of the biases that my mind has that I dont even realize
this book opened up my eyes to a host of mental biases.
Description from Open Library
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.
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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. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives―and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.
What people got from it AI summary
Best if you want to catch your own biases before making important decisions.
- Made me spot biases
- Slowed down my decisions
- Changed how I think
Style
Big-picture thinking · 528 pages
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