Will I love Thinking, Fast and Slow?

I find this book answers questions many people ask: Why aren’t we always logical? What gets in the way of our making effective decisions?

I first read this book when I started my consulting practice and realized I needed to combine psychology with philosophy in teaching critical thinking in professional settings. People want to understand why we can be unreasonable in the first place. Kahneman’s book helped me improve my own thinking, making me aware of the ways my previous experiences quickly provide interpretations of new experiences.

I find the ability to “hit the pause button” regarding my response to… show more.

Daniel Kahneman’s book is a must read for all who desire to understand their mind/brains and thereby maximize the use of the mind’s power over our lives.

In clear language, Daniel Kahneman illustrated the heuristic shortcuts that often limit our understanding and predispose our actions. We all hold onto outdated psychological mechanisms that create self-imposed limitations, and in doing so, we can find ourselves living out self-limiting lives.

Kahneman does an excellent job at showing us how we think we understand what we really don’t. His transparent and careful treatment of his subject has the potential to change how we… show more.

It wasn’t until reading this book that I realized how important it was to focus on the fast, instinctive part of our mind. Getting that initial judgment and reaction right makes everything else easier. Too often, I found myself wanting to understand things logically and rationally, assuming that my instincts and emotions were simply wrong.

This book helped me understand how useful both systems were and how to leverage them to achieve my goals faster and more effectively.

Although he is a psychologist, Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for this book. It's a long, dense study of how we make mistakes in thinking about . . . about just about anything. He calls our rapid, intuitive, emotional thinking System One, our slower, careful thinking System Two. There is a place in his world for System One, for intuition. But it leads us astray so often! A basketball scout sees a physical resemblance between a possible recruit and Michael Jordan. He's misled by the resemblance and thinks (System One) the recruit is likely to be an outstanding… show more.

This book transformed my understanding of human cognition. I love how Daniel Kahneman delves into the dual systems that drive our thoughts—intuitive and deliberate.

This book helped me recognize cognitive biases and informed how I develop AI technologies that align with human behavior. It reinforced the importance of designing AI that complements our natural thinking patterns.

I love any book that gives me insight into the mind, and this book taught me so much about the tricks of how our minds tackle big and everyday decisions; I recommend it to people on the street.

Kahneman was the first and probably only psychologist to win a Nobel Prize in economics, and it was for this book.

This was a rare gift for me as it took the vast experience from his career and his knowledge of the field of behavioural science, and presented and summarised so many of the fundamentals. Daniel Kahnemen is one of the founders of behavioural science and the idea that the way we behave is so often not as rational and convenient as economists would like to believe.

I'm used to reading research papers, and this book can be dense at times, but that's also what makes it so valuable—its depth makes it a fantastic reference for learning how we make important… show more.

I love this book because it makes me realize how easily we humans jump to the wrong conclusions. What might seem like effortless common sense is often completely incorrect. I really appreciate gaining insight into how we assess risk and opportunity and how, as a result, we can be duped into irrational choices. I found the whole topic of the pros and cons of heuristics really interesting.

Professor Kahneman’s ideologies on decision-making have helped me in business and my personal life.

His insights have enhanced my decision-making process and helped me navigate the strait between instinct and decision. His insights have encouraged me to delegate routine decisions, allowing me to reserve my mental energy for the most critical choices.

I laughed at Kahneman’s straightforward explanation of how my brain works without making me feel stupid. Apparently, humanness is normal, thank goodness.

He explains the complexities of System 1 and 2 thinking through storytelling, demonstrating what he is teaching about how our brains work. Even though I’d learned about these concepts through academic reading, I now feel like I “get it,” although even that statement is a product of both System 1 and 2 thinking and availability bias. Key takeaways: Intelligence and rationality are not the same, and the research is so substantial in how Systems 1 and 2 work… show more.