Rating: *****
Tags: Psychology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Business & Economics, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Self-Help, Personal Growth, General, Lang:en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Added: July 29, 2018
Modified: November 5, 2021
Summary
Major
New York
Times
bestseller
In his mega bestseller,
Thinking, Fast and Slow , Daniel Kahneman,
world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in
Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and
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. The impact of overconfidence
on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what
will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of
cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market
to planning our next vacation―each of these can be
understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our
judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we
think, Kahneman 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.
Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years,
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic,
an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of
readers. **
Over two million copies sold
Selected by the
New York
Times Book Review
as one of the ten best books of 2011
Selected by
The Wall
Street Journal
as one of the best nonfiction books of 2011
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject
of Michael Lewis's best-selling *The Undoing Project: A
Friendship That Changed Our Minds*