Les fast and slow thinking audiobook Diaries
My common refrain in these times is to dip into my quote bag and castigate the misguided with Popper’s glib witticism: “A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.” Pépite, channeling the Arch Bishop of astuteness, John Stuart Mill, I rise up, gesturing dramatically and pitching my voice just so: “He who knows only his side of the compartiment knows little of that.” Hoping their snotty self confiance will recede before my rational indignation like année anabolic hairline.
What a monstrous chore to read! I've been working on this book since September pépite August (4-6 months) and just could not take reading it for more than a few minutes at a time. Many times did it put me to sleep.
Nous the other end, you have the cutting-edge cognitive psychology informed by the neuroscience of MRIs, split-brain studies, and rat research. So claiming that psychology is pépite isn’t a érudition is a little simplistic, and I’m willing to grant that there are areas within psychology that are érudition. Conscience what it’s worth, Kahneman went a grand way to reinforcing this: it’s clear he and his collaborators have présent decades of largeur research. (Now, yes, it’s social
The parcours consists of eight lessons by Nisbett—who comes across je-screen as the authoritative joli approachable psych professor we all would like to have had—interspersed with some graphics and quizzes.
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" is Nous of the best books I ever read. I have read it 3x now. It's the gift that keeps je giving.
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But we can âcre as hell beat Nous-mêmes another with books like this until we piss Hémoglobine and can’t hold our toothbrushes due to nasty rotator cuff injuries. That’ll teach traditions.
This year’s two-day summit will be held in New York next month; expérience $2,845, you could learn, conscience example, “why are our brains so bad at thinking embout the prochaine, and how ut we do it better?”
Perhaps we're not as "free" in our decisions as we might like to think, if "priming" has such a stunningly reproducible effect. Perhaps we're not so determined, if activities that initially require "System 2" attention, can Sinon turned into deuxième-nature, "technical-évaluation intuitions.
And it's not that the prose is too technical (okay, sometimes it is) plaisant rather that Kahneman is stuck somewhere between academic technicalities and clear expressive prose.
This may Lorsque a book I need to own and ut that with as opposed to tear through it after borrowing it from the library and then hating myself as a slog through it.
is its failure to Renvoi evolutionary psychology. Once in a while, Kahneman alludes to System 1’s behaviour being the result of evolutionary traitement—and that’s jolie, parce que it is true, almost tautologically so. But he never quite delves into speculation about why
” We find someone attractive and we Thinking Fast and Slow conclude they’re competent. We find emotional coherence pleasing and lack of coherence frustrating. However, far fewer things are correlated than we believe.
Both systems have values built into them and any system of decision-making that edits them out is doomed to undercut itself. Some specifics that struck me: