Thinking, Fast and Slow
★★★★★ 5.0
Published: Estimated Reading Time: (1 min read) Key Points:
- Two Systems: Introduces System 1 (fast, intuitive, emotional) and System 2 (slow, deliberate, logical) as the dual processes governing human thought.
- Cognitive Biases: Comprehensive exploration of heuristics and biases including anchoring, availability, loss aversion, and the planning fallacy.
- Prospect Theory: Explains the Nobel Prize-winning theory on how people make decisions involving risk and uncertainty.
- Overconfidence: Demonstrates how experts systematically overestimate their knowledge and abilities.
- Life’s Work: Represents decades of research with Amos Tversky that fundamentally changed our understanding of human judgment.
