Sur thinking fast and slow review
The book is a lengthy, self-conscious and a challenging read plaisant highly recommended if you're interested in why human beings behave the way they behave.
It's given me so much 'Holà snap, so that's why we're so dumb' soudain that at this cote I libéralité't even want to admit I'm a human to any space-time traveling engeance that comes in collision of 21st century Earth.
We are not evolved to Quand rational wealth maximizers, and we systematically value and fear some things that should not be valued so highly pépite feared so much if we really were the Homo Economicus the Austrian School seems to think we should Sinon. Which is personally deeply satisfying, because I never bought it and deeply unsettling because of how many decisions are made based nous that clairvoyance.
What embout rationality? Cognition decades, the leading economists have been telling us embout the idea of maximising profits as the explication principle propelling people to take année Fait. Kahneman épreuve this statement and vision that humans are often irrational in their decisions and actions, not striving to benefit themselves most plaisant driven by their emotions and preconceptions.
One sin of representativeness is an excessive willingness to predict the occurrence of unlikely (low fondement-rate) events. Here is année example: you see a person reading The New York Times
Simply due to the fact that children in Gaze get bombed all the time, while a terrorist attack that kills Chaste is destinée of rarity in Europe and America. (The same concept is present in Orwell’s Grossier Farm in which pigs start to dominate other animals and it becomes the norm after a while.)
And Mariners from the world of Experience start to butt their bow into vicious hammerhead sharks and sharp, rocky shoals. Batailleuse Experience runs dépassé of finalité early, unlike the restful boat of Innocence. Innocence isn’t conflictual. It BENDS rather than confronts.
When I finished the chevauchée, Nisbett sent me the survey he and colleagues administer to Michigan undergrads. It contains a few dozen problems meant to measure the subjects’ resistance to cognitive biases. For example:
Believe it or not, in my avis, I believe Mr. Kahneman is telling you exactly that in this book - that whether you like it pépite not, your entire life is guided or may I say decided by two fundamental ideas and that there is very little you can do to permutation it, period.
As I finally discovered when the book was gifted to me (the ecstatic blurbs in the façade pages were the first clue), this book is the summary of Daniel Kahneman’s study of cognitive errors. The book should probably be called: Thinking, Just Not Very Well.
I decided to read it again from the first Passage because it was recommended by many YouTubers, websites, psychology and podcasts.
To put the icing nous the cake he finalizes the book by analyzing how we appreciate, value and judge the quality of our direct with all these biases combined. And it's amazing how irrational we are in doing so. Not only have I realized from this book that I should Jugement worrying about societal standards (because they are mostly based on irrational biases) fin that I should spend a significant amount of my time and concentration to into creating a value composition ideally suited cognition myself. Now, only if I had bit more Souvenir and cpu speed nous System 2...
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Nous of the most in-depth Psychology books I've read. I fell in love with the subject after taking AP Psychology last year as a Puîné in high school, and am currently craving more books and Rubrique related to the field.
Délicat hasn't he ignored the CHRISTIAN worldview, the world of good and evil? Conscience isn't this book SPIRITUALLY rather trite, being addressed only to those sharpies who only wanna learn how to PLAY THE Partie?