Vocabulary than is available in everyday language. Aĭeeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer
Learning medicine consists in part of learning the language of medicine.
Symptoms, possible antecedents and causes, possible developments andĬonsequences, and possible interventions to cure or mitigate the illness. Labels for diseases, each of which binds an idea of the illness and its To be a good diagnostician, a physician needs to acquire a large set of Resolutions to improve one’s decision making at work and at home. Powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year The expectation of intelligent gossip is a Will evaluate our choices the quality and content of these anticipated Many of us spontaneously anticipate how friends and colleagues When we most need to do it, but we can benefit from the informed opinions
We believe and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult Label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own. Why be concerned with gossip?īecause it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and Judgments and choices of others, the company’s new policies, or aĬolleague’s investment decisions. To enrich the vocabulary that people use when they talk about the Watercooler, where opinions are shared and gossip is exchanged. Expert Intuition: When Can We Trust It?Įvery author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.Ģ2. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.Įngaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011Ģ013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011Ī Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
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