We’re wired to create stories to explain events—even if those stories are wrong. We often mistake coherence for truth, which leads to overconfidence in our knowledge.

The Illusion of Understanding

We feel the pain of loss twice as strongly as we feel the joy of gain. This influences everything from investing to decision-making in relationships.

Loss Aversion is Real

System 1 is efficient but prone to biases. It relies on mental shortcuts (heuristics) that can lead to errors in judgment, like jumping to conclusions or misjudging risk.

System 1 Isn’t Always Right

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.

True insight and better decision-making come when we engage System 2—when we slow down, ask questions, and challenge our initial reactions.

Slowing Down is Power

Your brain has two modes of thinking:• System 1: Fast, automatic, intuitive• System 2: Slow, deliberate, analyticalMost of our decisions start in System 1—even when we think we’re being rational.

Two Systems, One Mind

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman explores how we think using two systems: one fast and intuitive, the other slow and logical. It reveals how biases shape our decisions—and how understanding them helps us think smarter.

Major New York Times bestseller Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012 Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned 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. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

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Daniel Kahneman (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, notable for his work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology.With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973, Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982), and developed Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979). He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory. Currently, he is professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology.

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