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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011 · 512 pages
In this work the author, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, has brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. He 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. He exposes the extraordinary capabilities, and also the faults and biases, of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. He 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. This author's work has transformed cognitive psychology and launched the new fields of behavioral economics and happiness studies. In this book, he takes us on a tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and the way we make choices.
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Andrej Karpathy
“I could not bring myself to finish this book. The book is filled with shady experiments on undergraduates and psychology grad students and wild extrapolations of the associated results. I find it exceedingly difficult to take many of the conclusions seriously. I can't read into them. I can't trust them. I can't base my decisions on them and I resist incorporating them into my world view with anything more than 0.01 weight. In fact, several of the experiments that this book mentions were also found to be not reproducible by a recent meta-study on reproducibility in psychology studies. Here's a characteristic example of me reading the book. The author says: "Consider the word EAT. Now fill in the blank in the following: SO_P. You were much more likely to fill in the blank with a U to make SOUP than with an A to make soap! How amazing. We call this phenomenon priming, system 1, something something". In fact, no, SOAP came to my mind immediately. All I could think about when I read this book is my own experience of participating in a friend's psychology study once. He designed an experiment and asked me to do some things and answer some questions, but at some point it became extremely clear to me what the experiment was about, or how he hoped I would behave. I went along with it, but I couldn't believe that this would eventually become part of a paper. It was a joke. I'm afraid you can't go through a similar experience and take these studies seriously from then on. All that being said I do find the broad strokes of the system1/system2 division proposed in this book to be interesting and appealing. A small few of the examples were fun to contemplate, and it was okay. 3/5, aborting reading.”
Bill Gates
“List of books Bill Gates read in 2012.”↗
Naval Ravikant
“Fine book but it didn’t need to be an entire book. A blog post would have gotten the point across.”↗
Nassim Taleb
“Also, I have been hyping Daniel Kahneman’s recent book, because it is largely an exposition of his research of thirty-five and forty years ago, with filtering and modernization.”
Derek Sivers
“If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those pop-psychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it.”↗
Ev Williams
“I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating nonetheless.”↗
Chris Williamson
“The OG of cognitive biases and rationality. Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold typeface? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? If you’re interested in how the mind works and why you have the decisions, opinions and beliefs that you do, this is a fascinating read. Illustrated with example experiments which you can perform on yourself and really drive the points home. Read it, do not get it on Audible, many of the examples are visual and it makes for a messy listen. Non-Fiction 31”↗
Kirk Borne
“Operationalizing #AI >> Decision-making often comes down to resolving the conflict in our minds between the “impulsive, automatic, intuitive” and the “thoughtful, deliberate, calculating” systems of thinking. ————— Brilliant book "Thinking, Fast and Slow":”↗
Bryan Johnson
“I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life.”↗
Preston Pysh
“@huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you.”↗
Fareed Zakaria
“Most ‘idea books’ are bloated essays; this one, from a Nobel Prize–winning economist, is worth reading all the way through. Kahneman offers a fascinating set of ideas about how human beings think and reason, for better and worse.”↗
Tom Peters
“@geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The “bible” is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.)”↗
Samir Arora
“@ranvijay81 @KiritManral One of the best books”↗
Jason Fried
“@invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating.”↗
Ron Conway
“Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness.”↗
Yuval Noah Harari
“Do you want to understand how humans think? Read this book. It is one of the best starting points for exploring the tangled web of the human mind.”↗
Scott Adams
“Persuasion Reading List.”↗
Samantha Power
“A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more:”↗
Jay Shetty
“2 of my favourite books @simonsinek great reminders #books”↗
Adam Townsend
“@echo_chamberz Read the book, it's great. PDFs are online”↗
Simon Kuestenmacher
“Fun list of 20 cognitive biases screwing up our decisions. The best book on this topic I ever read was of course Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow". It's one of the few books I would label as essential reading for nearly everyone. Full list here:”↗
Penn Jillette
“This is the best magic book ever written. I don’t think Kahneman thought he was writing a book on magic, but most magicians don’t think they’re studying how the brain works, so we’re even. God doesn’t come up in this book.”↗
Richard Thaler
“@Bradley_James2 Misbehaving? Thinking Fast and Slow. Undoing Project.”↗
Segun Awosanya
“Get your hands on this if your can. This is the best book on understanding human behavior. #psychology #SEGAsBookClub 🤓”↗
Michiko Kakutani
“The book “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman - a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics - has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs.”↗
Derek Muller
“@periodicvideos can't recommend 'Thinking Fast and Slow' highly enough. I'm reading 'David and Goliath' now, which has its moments”↗
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