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Thinking, Fast and Slow Audio CD – 25 October 2011

by Daniel Kahneman (Author), Patrick Egan (Narrator)

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Random House (a)
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25 October 2011
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12.93 x 4.17 x 14.94 cm
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0739357980
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978-0739357989
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House (a); Unabridged edition (25 October 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0739357980
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0739357989
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.93 x 4.17 x 14.94 cm

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Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן‎, born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974), and developed prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979).

In 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers. In the same year, his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, which summarizes much of his research, was published and became a best seller. He is professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. Kahneman is a founding partner of TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He is married to Royal Society Fellow Anne Treisman.

In 2015 The Economist listed him as the seventh most influential economist in the world.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by see page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Chan Y.

Good read

Reviewed in Australia on 10 November 2020

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This book is a really good read, it made me know why sometimes we think and act a certain way and why sometimes we think about something but we are able to not act on it. It is quite a content heavy and dry book but still interesting. I can't read this book quickly though because it makes me stop and think haha. I would say this book is a slow read. Not something u can continuously read chapters at once. I read about 1-2 chapters at once only, I'm only halfway through this book and I'm enjoying it!

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System 1 is just like our intuitive thinking

Reviewed in Australia on 12 July 2018

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This book is incredible for discussing the rationality of human beings. Human behaviors are not only irrational, but also predictably irrational, which is the main topic of this book.
This book has divided into 5 main topics, and discussed three different pairs of concepts. The first one is our thinking system, one is fast (denoted as system 1), another is slow (denoted as system 2). System 1 is just like our intuitive thinking, and system 2 is like deliberate thinking. Many of our irrational behaviors are caused by the fast response of system 1, together with the laziness of system 2.
The second pair is Humans and Econs, which Econ means the rational assumption assumed by classic economists, and Human means the actual human in the daily life. The Prospect Theory is used explained in what kinds of situation that humans do not behave like economists have predicted, and why.
The third pair is the experiencing self and remembering self. The feeling we experience during the events is very different than the the feelings in our memory, which sometimes cause decision making not as make sense and let us regret later.
Overall this book is full of insightful thoughts, with a lot of examples to explain the concepts. Daniel Kahneman did a great job on all these topics

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Psychological masterpiece

Reviewed in Australia on 28 June 2021

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A book that will open your eyes in what decades of research has been suggesting about the inconsistencies in human behaviour. The author goes into tremendous detail to explain the thought patterns of our minds.

A downside is that the book is printed in miniature font, which slightly worsened the reading experience. You're also likely to lose interest in the author's argument over time reading this book unless you show some degree of passion or enthusiasm about behavioural psychology.

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Pepper

Taste like the incense you smell from the church

Reviewed in Australia on 5 December 2021

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Reading it makes you feel hungry, and then you think this is a good food, but all it tastes like is the woody incense you smell from the church. There is no taste. It has ruined my appetite for reading other self-help books because I am now confused and don't know if I want to eat other produce.

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kiwi500

Very small print

Reviewed in Australia on 26 December 2020

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I want to like this best seller. The print is so small and condensed, I struggle to read it. The printers have economised on the size of the book by making the font teeny.

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DK

A great read!!!

Reviewed in Australia on 16 August 2021

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Vividly illustrates how fast and slow thinking works in our brains. I got amased several times when the author asked some simple questions and I answered wrongly as many others. Are we paying enough attention?

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Justin Taylor

The hype is justified. Very insightful.

Reviewed in Australia on 3 August 2020

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This book presents a bunch of ideas that resonate with you almost immediately. There are some fantastic insights here and I doubt that anyone can read this and not reassess their own perspective more thoroughly. Will read again.

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Jon

Amazing book.

Reviewed in Australia on 21 September 2020

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I don’t need to write a review of this. It’s already regarded as a seminal work for behavioural economics. The guy changed the game about how the whole world thinks about how we make decisions. If you’re a marketer, it’s required reading.

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Dr W. H. Konarzewski

Essential wisdom. Not an easy read but worth persevering.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2018

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Why do people buy extended warranties that are bad value for money?
Why do we marry people just because they're good in bed?
Why do investors snatch small profits from winning investments whilst allowing large losses to build up in bad investments?
Why do parents deny their children life saving vaccinations for fear of unproven risks?
Why do we think a bird in the hand is worth two in a bush?

On the whole humans are incredibly good at making bad decisions because they allow emotions and moral values to prevail over good sense and simple mathematical calculation. We make snap decisions based on our intuition (fast thinking) and often believe our intuition is superior to logic (slow thinking). For example, President Trump recently said he preferred to listen to his 'gut' than his advisors.

Kahneman examines the reasons why we make bad decisions and indicates ways in which we might make better decisions - even if the better decisions make us feel uncomfortable because they are counterintuitive.

My only problem with this book is that it is so laborious in places that I almost lost interest. Sometimes Kahneman goes on and on about a proposition that has (at least for me) zero interest. If he asks 'How much would you pay for a bowl of roses valued at $59?' I don't have an answer because I'm simply not interested and I don't want to know how much anyone else would pay, or why they would or wouldn't pay it. Perhaps it's just me, but I found some of the propositions too complex to bother with. But to be fair there were some chapters that had me spellbound - maybe because they touched on areas where I make bad decisions.

Overall, this is an important book but spoiled by too much dense argument and irrelevant illustration. It could have contained all the salient points and been reduced to half the length without any dilution of the message.

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Binod

Poor paper quality

Reviewed in India on 26 September 2018

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Don't go with this product. The size of the letters are so small that, I bet, you can't read a page comfortably. I'm not saying anything about the content of the book. The paper quality of the book especially, the size of letters, is so poor that u will regret buying this book. Now it's ur choice.

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D. Smyth

Maybe I'm just thick

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2020

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I'm about 20% of the way through and I am going to struggle to finish this. It started really good, talking about intuitive decision-making vs deliberate and gave a few examples of how our brains can be tricked, but then it never moves on. The whole book is just examples of how we can be wrong, written in infuriating 'you think this because you are so-and-so' language. The book is aimed squarely at Americans as are the examples and the author's assumptions. One 'trick' was explained based on 'because you sang your ABCs as a child". No I didnt, so if that's your basis for the explanation then what now? I just read a section about heuristics but with no explanation of what heuristics involves. The average person on the street doesn't use heuristics. Just thinking about this book is annoying me. You won't get wisdom from this book in my opinion, but imagine if someone listed all their life mistakes and gave you it. You could make a note to not make the same ones, but would you really have learned anything? Maybe if you're planning to enter a psychological 'temple of doom' it's useful to know where the traps are.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 April 2018

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Certainly the most thought provoking book I've read in a long time, so much so I've written a blog about it's conclusion and the impact on social media. More importantly how people are being manipulated on social media by people using the "techniques" outline in this book.
It's not an easy book to read so not one for the beach, but push through and there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

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Janie U

Repetitive and impossible to engage with

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2020

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I bought this book as I am fascinated with the general topic of the thought processes. It has sat on my bookshelf for over two years which shows either I wasn't that interested or something else was putting me off.
Pick up the book and you see there are well over 400 pages using a very small type.
Recently I've tried to engage with the book a couple of times but, as a reader from a non academic background, I find it impossible as it is dull to read and repeats to many of the details.
Clearly a lot of people think this book is great but maybe they are coming at it from the viewpoint of an academic study.
I was interested to read that the audio version is much more palatable so I may come back to that at some point in the future.

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