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Thinking, Fast And Slow (Daniel Kahneman) - Book Review

Mere Mortals Conversations
Mere Mortals Conversations
Episode • Dec 1, 2020 • 16m
How well do you really know your own mind? 'Thinking, Fast And Slow' is a hugely influential book published by the Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. In it he summarises 40 years of psychological research that helped to create the field of behavioural economics. The book is littered with gems of insight into the human brain and why humans behave the way we do. This includes heuristics such as loss aversion/anchoring/priming as well as larger concepts such as System 1 vs System 2, Econs vs Humans and the Experiencing Self vs Remembering Self.
Kyrin summarised the book thusly. "This...