![]() ![]() System 2 is the more contemplative, cognitively taxing counterpart that we engage for serious mental exertion. System 1 provides intuitive judgements based on stimulus we might not even be conscious of receiving it’s the snap signals that we might not even know we are acting upon. ![]() Kahneman’s thesis breaks our decision-making systems into two pieces, System 1 and System 2, which are the respective “fast” and “slow” of the title. But the book overstays its welcome by a few hundred pages. Daniel Kahneman spins an interesting tale of human psychology and the way our brains interpret and act on data. Thinking, Fast and Slow is kind of like a guest who shows up to your party and then dazzles everyone with an impromptu, 15-minute oration on the geopolitical situation in South Ossetia and, everyone applauds and turns to go back to their own conversations, only for the guest to launch into another story about the time they parachuted into the Balkans to break up a nascent civil war, a story which is followed quickly by a similar tale of a visit to Southeast Asia…. Not that the second part is bad, mind you the entire book is well-written and obviously the product of someone who knows their field. I kind of want to cut this book in half, praise the first part, and stick the second part in some corner to gather dust. ![]()
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