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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.
Ego is the Enemy
Author: [[Ryan Holiday]] Talk, talk, talk, talk Silence is a strength Just spending hours talking about doing something doesn’t count as doing it To be or to do? Pretend to have virtues or be virtuous? Try to impress people of be truly impressive? Not actually good examples “to be” has compromises “to do” means having a purpose, there is only one way, but is hard Become a student Never cease to improve Never think of knowing enough Have a lesser whom to teach, an equal to confront and a better to learn from “It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows” - Epictetus Be open to feedback Don’t be passionate Be reasonable Don’t be passionate, have a purpose Passion highlights the ego e.