Summary of Thinking, Fast and Slow
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The topics that Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman addresses are both complex and integral to the human mind: He asks you to think about thinking by considering how your mind habitually contradicts itself, distorts data and misleads you. His prose is lucid, his reasoning rigorous and his honesty refreshing – more than once Kahneman illustrates conflicted thinking with examples from his own life. The result is a fairly slow read, but an ultimately rewarding experience. getAbstract recommends this book to anyone interested in neuroscience and neuroeconomics, and to all those who want to improve their thinking about thinking.
In this summary, you will learn
- How your mind works “fast and slow,”
- How your “two selves” affect your perspective, and
- How to think better.
About the Author
Daniel Kahneman, a professor emeritus at Princeton and a Nobel laureate in economics, has written extensively on the psychology of judgment and decision making.
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6 months agoIt is pretty good
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10 months agoMe considero anal´tico,pero somos minoría.L,astima para nuestro pueblo común sometido por demagogos y caudillos, soy de Ecuador
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12 months agoThis is very interesting read. It starts off slow but it definitely picks up by addressing the different types of cognitive systems; how each system has a distinctive way of thinking. Balance even in the brain.
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12 months agoEasy to read and lots of a-ha effects
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1 year agoi struggled to read this summary but its nicely written that made it quite delightful.
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1 year agoAn exquisite model to understand how our cognitive systems work, as would be expected from such a gifted and decorated author.
Even as this simplified model leaves me impressed, I remain unclear how this knowledge could be effectively used by organizations/ in policy making to improve the overall quality of life for everyone involved or to further enhance the performance of star-performers. -
1 year agoam definitely going to read the whole book .. its lovely
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1 year agoWoow, another great lesson of keeping balance even inside your brain! Great reading #StayOnTrack #getAbstract
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1 year agoThey pronounce 'Kahneman' wrong I believe in the audio.
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1 year agoVery Good one
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1 year agoExcellent
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1 year agoThis book is very good
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1 year agoLove it. Good and mind-blowing.
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2 years agoI bought the book and i find it really useful in the prespective it is giving me and the summary was very helpful since i did not finish the book yet, now i can link things in the book better
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2 years agoKahneman also features on this podcast - https://soundcloud.com/howtobeamazing/42-daniel-kahneman
How to be Amazing #42, also available on itunes. It's on my to-listen list, i've just not got to it yet! -
2 years agoI love the way how professor Kahneman explain the stuff about our mind and thinking....
I got this book by chance in a visit to my friend Richard
Now l love it -
2 years agoI love the way how professor Kahneman explain the stuff about our mind and thinking....
I got this book by chance in a visit to my friend Richard
Now l love it -
2 years agoI think I need to read the full book to understand it. That or sit and discuss with someone so I can wrap my head around some of these concepts.
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2 years agoHi Amanda. I agree - sometimes the full book is needed to full grasp dense concepts such as this. I felt the same way reading the summary. Have you checked out the author's TEDTalk, "The Riddle of Memory VS. Experience" on the getAbstract site? Once i watched the video and re-read this summary, I was able to understand the concepts a bit more and even start to apply it. Good luck!
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2 years agoAbsorbing exhaustive and good
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3 years agoIt's mind-blowing. I started to see things differently now and be more aware of my System 1 thinking whenever it takes place! Very well-written book.
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3 years agoVery useful, thanks
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3 years agoI am reading this book right now and in spite of the small letters (paperback edition) and the slow reading (System II engaging), it provides interesting examples on how our mind is clouded by rational but not always statistical and appropriate thinking. Definitely a good source of insights for more conscious decision making in all aspects of life.
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3 years agoHard to grasp here the utility of the book in the real life. I will search for more
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2 years agoHi Juan. I agree. I felt the same way reading the summary. Have you checked out the author's TEDTalk, "The Riddle of Memory VS. Experience" on the getAbstract site? Once i watched the video and re-read this summary, I was able to understand the concepts a bit more. Good luck!
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3 years agoGood
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4 years agoGood summary of how we think - yes you need to engage system 2 to get the most out of it but that is not to its detriment in any way. As a Learning and Development Professional working with Sales Teams I use some of these ideas to inform my training including training design and more recently helping sales teams understand the power of stories which tap into system one very effectively.
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5 years agoI find this book is quite complicated to read. It requires system 2 to be active most of the time to be able to truly get the most. Fascinating book, though, my system 1 wants the short cut and so a abstract of the best ideas is what I am searching for. Hopefully the abstract will satisfy the system 2 when I read the abstract for which reading the book in its entirety with system 1 did not reach teh intended learning.
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7 years agoJust started reading my copy last week. I am enjoying it, but one must read it deliberately :-) to be able to enjoy it...thats system II iI guess
Reminds be of Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein...........curious to know if they have any demonstrations on how these ideas have any positive impact on business decisions and results
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7 years agoGood morning Mr. Daniel Kahneman,
I am Phd Student now in Andalas University. I am conducting my reseach about problem solving for schizophrenia. it is an excellence reading book about thinking that everyone must read it in order to refresh their thinking.
would you please to give me this book for enrich my reference. If you would, please send me to : daryanto_2003@yahoo.com-
7 years agoHello!
Many thanks for your nice comment. We also enjoyed this book. In fact, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" has made it to the shortlist for this year's getAbstract International Book Award.
getAbstract does not sell or make entire books available to our customers. However, I checked on Amazon.com, and there are some good deals on this book right now. Please follow this link to find out more: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1343997901&sr=8-1
Best of luck with your research. Schizophrenia is a fascinating topic.
Have a lovely weekend.
Kind regards,
Deirdre Cody (editor at getAbstract)
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7 years agohow i wish to get this an important motivational book of such.
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7 years agoHow come you never mentioned any of his previous books as you did with other authors?
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7 years agoDarn good question. Here you go:
Daniel Kahneman is also the co-oauthor of Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, written with Thomas Gilovich, and of Choices, Values and Frames, and Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases,both written with Amos Tversky, as well as Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology, written with Ed Diener. Working with Diener and John Helliwell, Kahneman also co-authored International Differences in Well-Being.
Hope that's helpful. Thanks for your comment. E. Rauzin, managing editor, getAbstract
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7 years agoWhile the concepts of the book are intriguing, something about the summary makes me feel as though the important bits of the book were either left out or recapped in such a way that I find the summary not as good as others I have read on getabstract.com.
