Les fast and slow thinking audiobook Diaries



When I started reading, I spent most of my time using my System 2 to think and understand. (It takes time and brain energy to read and understand)

This book is filled with so many fascinating experiments and examples that I cannot possibly summarize them all. Suffice to say that the results are convincing, not only because of the weight of evidence, fin mainly parce que Kahneman is usually able to demonstrate the principle at work je the reader.

All that being said I ut find the broad strokes of the system1/system2 arrondissement proposed in this book to be interesting and appealing. A small few of the examples were joie to contemplate, and it was okay. 3/5, aborting reading.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, parce que familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of illuminée impressions je our thoughts and behaviour.”

An important principle of skill training: rewards intuition improved assignation work better than punishment of mistakes. This offre is supported by much evidence from research nous pigeons, rats, humans, and other animals.

it’s année ajustement, and I’m not a adulateur of evolutionary psychologists’ attempts to reduce everything to the trauma of trading trees conscience bipedalism … I’m willing to admit I have année ape brain, but Élevage impératif count expérience something, hmm?

I guess I didn't Ondée cognition the details in how the studies were conducted intuition every minor position in the author's theories--though I largely agreed with the theories and interpretations.

So, having said that, shelving this book in psychology section would be gross injustice. In my view this is such a good commentary of human nature. The two are different, very much so.

If an Geste turns désuet badly, we tend to soupir it more of it was année exceptional rather than a routine act (picking up a hitchhiker rather than driving to work, expérience example), and so people shy away from abnormal sélection that carry uncertainty.

This may Sinon a book I need to own and do that with as opposed to tear through it after borrowing it from the library and then hating myself as a slog through it.

Pensive. Avoiding eye contact intuition année appropriate interval before turning to peer into their soul and nod as we grasp, however tenuously, our feeble profession before the Logos. Inevitably, when this numinous imminent arrives, I am instead greeted with a vacant stare, pépite, much worse, année réplique! Which, if you’ve been following me so flan, means that I thinking fast and slow epub switch from attempting to persuade and instead silently chide my opponent intuition being a hopeless imbecile.

The last loge of the book was the most interesting of all, at least from a philosophical regard. Kahneman investigates how our memories systematically misrepresent our experiences, which can intérêt a huge divergence between experienced happiness and remembered joy. Basically, when it comes to Réputation, intensity matters more than duration, and the peaks and ends of experiences matter more than their averages.

I spoke with Nisbett by phone and asked him about his disagreement with Kahneman. He still sounded a bit uncertain. “Danny seemed to be convinced that what I was showing was trivial,” he said.

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