A book (📕 / 📀 / 🎧) by Daniel Kahneman
Your thoughts determine how you view life, and that’s why you need to learn how to control them
Your brain is always looking for the most natural way out, which could be the death of your ethical judgment-making.
Where there is a chance to preserve energy and assume something without overthinking, your brain will exercise this option. It usually ends up substituting effort for creativity, thanks to your thoughts.
Several factors — illusion, availability, and experience — influence your decisions. These factors lead you to make biased conclusions. Thinking is not as easy as it seems; it is an art we must master. People use intuition, the so-called gut feeling, instead of facts when making decisions. The same goes for problems that are too difficult to solve using logic and intellectual ability — people go with what they “feel” is correct. This phenomenon represents fast thinking, which does not waste too much energy and allows you to evaluate the situation and make relevant decisions quickly. Slow thinking, however, is the type that requires a conscious and energy-consuming thought process but uses logic rather than memory and emotions. Therefore, mastery of thoughts comes from understanding what constitutes intuition and assumptions.
⚡️Experiments and facts shape your thinking, which is why you should know when to switch between intuition and empirical facts.
Daniel Kahneman is a master of his trade. His knowledge of behavioral economics, cognitive thinking, and psychology put him among the best. He believes in placing facts over assumptions and that behavioral patterns can be easy using relative examples and instances
Follow this detailed summary to find out how your brain deceives you and hurts your decision-making process and what you can do to prevent this.