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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
While the content should be exciting, the rocky prose and author's incessant self-inflations make it a tedious read. There are nuggets of knowledge that can reframe how you think of your own brain, if you have the patience for the slog.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
A really well written book explaining a lot of the heuristic devices that we utilize in everyday life. The book is laid out in a very organized fashion where each chapter adds to the previous, allowing someone with no training in psychology to understand a lot of the concepts and have a better understanding of why we make some of the choices we make.
The book is filled with the experiments that were conducted for the research, detailing how the experiments were designed, the hypothesis, and notable results. Daniel Kahneman does a great job kf then relating the research to common choices and providing insight into the way our minds do not always think rationally, even if that is something that we have trained ourselves to do.
If you have ever wanted to better understand why sometimes we intuit something or why sometimes we should slow down and think about a decision, this is a great book.
The book is filled with the experiments that were conducted for the research, detailing how the experiments were designed, the hypothesis, and notable results. Daniel Kahneman does a great job kf then relating the research to common choices and providing insight into the way our minds do not always think rationally, even if that is something that we have trained ourselves to do.
If you have ever wanted to better understand why sometimes we intuit something or why sometimes we should slow down and think about a decision, this is a great book.
Summary: Provocative book that suggests we are far less in control of how we think than we (or at least I) had any idea.
Things I liked:
Lots of evidence and experiments to back up his findings.
Provocative ideas that you can immediately apply to your own experience.
A good overarching model that flows nicely from introduction, body and conclusion. In particular I find a lot of non-fiction books like this that tender to wander or lose the plot in the last third of the length; I was very pleasantly surprised that this book didn't do that.
Things I thought could be improved:
Quite long, it took me a long time to get through it.
Highlight:
Heaps of great 'aha' moments but I think I really liked the section on the experiential self versus remembering self.
Things I liked:
Lots of evidence and experiments to back up his findings.
Provocative ideas that you can immediately apply to your own experience.
A good overarching model that flows nicely from introduction, body and conclusion. In particular I find a lot of non-fiction books like this that tender to wander or lose the plot in the last third of the length; I was very pleasantly surprised that this book didn't do that.
Things I thought could be improved:
Quite long, it took me a long time to get through it.
Highlight:
Heaps of great 'aha' moments but I think I really liked the section on the experiential self versus remembering self.
I just finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel prize. I give the book four stars because of its thorough and specific content.
I read these painful 418 pages so no one else needs to, unless they’re a behaviourist or economist. It is long, dry and in such a small font that it prompted me to get an eye test and now I need to pick up reading glasses in two weeks from Specsavers.
The basics; System 1 (Fast) thinking is quick - it makes assumptions and rapid conclusions, it’s accurate but inaccurate, it’s surface level and it’s great for estimations and threat management. System 2 (Slow) thinking is cognitive heavy - it requires active, critical and methodical thinking to solves problems and find deeper patterns, or bring context to the lack of patterns that System 1 relies on.
We need to be conscious of these. From there, the book is a series of word tests and probability predictions to support how these findings were made.
It’s a highly respected book in the field but I don’t recommend this if you’re trying to gain a tangible and actionable understanding of behavioural science in a digestible way.
I read these painful 418 pages so no one else needs to, unless they’re a behaviourist or economist. It is long, dry and in such a small font that it prompted me to get an eye test and now I need to pick up reading glasses in two weeks from Specsavers.
The basics; System 1 (Fast) thinking is quick - it makes assumptions and rapid conclusions, it’s accurate but inaccurate, it’s surface level and it’s great for estimations and threat management. System 2 (Slow) thinking is cognitive heavy - it requires active, critical and methodical thinking to solves problems and find deeper patterns, or bring context to the lack of patterns that System 1 relies on.
We need to be conscious of these. From there, the book is a series of word tests and probability predictions to support how these findings were made.
It’s a highly respected book in the field but I don’t recommend this if you’re trying to gain a tangible and actionable understanding of behavioural science in a digestible way.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Academically very informative and interesting. For a non-fiction book it’s even pretty ok to get through. But personally I’ll never find it enjoyable per se.
I thought this would've gave me jewish economics superpowers but as it turns out u have to an actual brain in the first place to read through this without getting bored to death.. It's a a very academic data focused type of book.. not my thing right now.
In the end, I gave this book 3 stars.
You will see from the dates that it took me an unusually long time to get through this book.
I think a testament to the overall themes is that I did persevere and finish the book.
There were some very interesting ideas discussed in the book and it had the potential to be a 5 star read for me, but I felt each one was drawn out far longer than it needed to be. Some things need only to be explained briefly for us to thoroughly understand the concept.
Ultimately, I do still think it is a good book and worth a read, particularly if you are interested in human decision making.
You will see from the dates that it took me an unusually long time to get through this book.
I think a testament to the overall themes is that I did persevere and finish the book.
There were some very interesting ideas discussed in the book and it had the potential to be a 5 star read for me, but I felt each one was drawn out far longer than it needed to be. Some things need only to be explained briefly for us to thoroughly understand the concept.
Ultimately, I do still think it is a good book and worth a read, particularly if you are interested in human decision making.
It’s a slow read. I get it, system 1 and system 2. The system seems simple enough, maybe less examples would have made the book flow more
This is the best book I've read so far, Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman's masterpiece.
I have always had a problem with the hand waving nature of psychology. It has always appeared to me that it is a scientific field that is being treated as if it is an art or at best renaissance alchemy. Kahneman has made significant improvements in this regard. There is still a long way to go however this book and the Appendices in particular are well worth reading.