The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions
Daniel Kahneman was a Senior Scholar at Princeton University, and a former Emeritus Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. He died in 2024.
A factual read that will keep you interested with its complexities,
this International Bestseller by psychologist Daniel Kahneman is a
must. Exploring how we make decisions and offering a fresh take on
how the human mind works, it's an intriguing read that encourages
new perspectives
*Hello Magazine*
The godfather of behavioural science . . . Kahneman's steely
analysis of the human mind and its many flaws remains perhaps the
most useful guide to remaining sane and steady
*The Sunday Times*
There have been many good books on human rationality and
irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel
Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.Kahneman, a winner of the Nobel
Prize for economics, distils a lifetime of research into an
encyclopedic coverage of both the surprising miracles and the
equally surprising mistakes of our conscious and unconscious
thinking. He achieves an even greater miracle by weaving his
insights into an engaging narrative that is compulsively readable
from beginning to end. My main problem in doing this review was
preventing family members and friends from stealing my copy of the
book to read it for themselves...this is one of the greatest and
most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have
read
*Financial Times*
Absorbing, intriguing...By making us aware of our minds' tricks,
Kahneman hopes to inspire individuals and organisations to identify
strategies to outwit them
*Sunday Times*
Profound . . . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of
the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch,
Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we
assume ourselves to be
*The Economist*
[Thinking, Fast and Slow] is wonderful, of course. To anyone with
the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind, it is so
rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd
*Vanity Fair*
It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of
intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently
entertaining and frequently touching, especially when Kahneman is
recounting his collaboration with Tversky . . . So impressive is
its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist
David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky's work
'will be remembered hundreds of years from now,' and that it is 'a
crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.' They are, Brooks
said, 'like the Lewis and Clark of the mind' . . . By the time I
got to the end of Thinking, Fast and Slow, my skeptical frown had
long since given way to a grin of intellectual satisfaction.
Appraising the book by the peak-end rule, I overconfidently urge
everyone to buy and read it. But for those who are merely
interested in Kahenman's takeaway on the Malcolm Gladwell question
it is this: If you've had 10,000 hours of training in a
predictable, rapid-feedback environment-chess, firefighting,
anesthesiology-then blink. In all other cases, think
*The New York Times Book Review*
[Kahneman's] disarmingly simple experiments have profoundly changed
the way that we think about thinking . . . We like to see ourselves
as a Promethean species, uniquely endowed with the gift of reason.
But Mr. Kahneman's simple experiments reveal a very different mind,
stuffed full of habits that, in most situations, lead us astray
*The Wall Street Journal*
This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of
Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Daniel Kahneman is among the most influential psychologists in
history and certainly the most important psychologist alive
today...The appearance of Thinking, Fast and Slow is a major
event
*The Language Instinct*
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