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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Author: Daniel Kahneman
- Human have two primary systems for thinking.
| System 1 | System 2 |
|---|---|
| Operates automatically | Allocated attention |
| No voluntary control | Corrects intuitive predictions |
| Lazy | Hard worker |
| Diffuse thinking | Focused thinking |
| What you see is all there is | |
- People tend to make decisions and judgments based on personal bias and intuition, instead of facts and statistics.
- This because of the illusion of validation
- Optimism as mechanism against doubt
- Cons: overconfidence
- How to mitigate overconfidence?
- Premortem tactic, i.e. premeditatio malorum employed in the [[Stoicism]]
- Experiencing self:
- leads decision based on whether we liked an experience or not
- Remembering self:
- leads decisions based on past reactions towards the event