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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
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Daniel Kahneman's pioneering work that tackles questions of intuition and rationality, read by Patrick Egan.
In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a ground-breaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive and emotional; the other is slower, more deliberative and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour. The importance of properly framing risks, the effects of cognitive biases on how we view others, the dangers of prediction, the right ways to develop skills, the pros and cons of fear and optimism, the difference between our experience and memory of events, the real components of happiness-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgements and decisions.
Drawing on a lifetime's experimental experience, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our professional and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you take decisions and experience the world.
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Nobel Prize-winning Economic Scientist Daniel Kahneman has collated all of his ground-breaking research into one essential best-selling audiobook Thinking, Fast and Slow, which has been narrated by Patrick Egan. Your entire way of thinking and decision-making will be defied after reading this book. From the way in which you form your ideas to the reasons how and why these ideas came to you in the first place. Learn more about yourself and others as you are enlightened with Kahneman’s research. Available now from Audible.
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- F. I. Nance
- 28-06-14
Sensational: you'll understand how your mind works
What made the experience of listening to Thinking, Fast and Slow the most enjoyable?
The surprise, when you again and again, stumble over your own behaviour being described in the book. How you use assumptions, shortcuts and reduction of information to make everyday decisions, and Kahneman even exposes it to you with a quick math question regarding a baseball and a bat...
What was one of the most memorable moments of Thinking, Fast and Slow?
...when I was proud to have no glitches in some questions before and then stubbled over a question with animals and an ark...
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
This book wasn't easy to stop listening...
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- Olumide
- 14-04-13
Educating
I found the book quite educating. It increased my knowledge of the human behavior. I have learnt a lot about my own behavior regarding risk taking and crave for insurance. I recommend it to everyone.
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- Miss Asteroidea
- 27-02-20
So dry and soooooo long!
I was initially interested in the content - things like anchoring I found interesting for business and even the bits I didn't agree with, at least I was engaged and talking back in my car! But I feel like it loses its way after a few chapters and is just so dry and so long. I only pushed through because I was going to a book group and also, listening in the car, I just allowed a lot of it to wash over me. I wasn't fully engaged with it, a lot of the time, because it was just so repetitive and without concern for how it may be received by the average reader who may be interested in the subject but who doesn't want a PhD. It needed a much tougher editor!
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- Tom Robinson
- 11-03-21
hard listen. Amazing returns
for me personally a very hard listen but if you take the time I'm too understand everything the knowledge you can gain is priceless.
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- Josiah Beynon
- 15-03-18
Best in small chunks
A great book, sometimes a bit heavy going but well worth a listen. There is ab accompanying pdf with visual aides but I found as long as I looked at the next say four or five in advance, the text in book gave me enough of a prompt to understand without having to go back to it.
I thought the narrator did a very good job, it isn't easy material to keep sounding engaging, which I think he managed.
I certainly learned a lot from the book. I'm sure I have much more to learn on a second pass through.
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- Chijioke
- 13-09-20
Insightful
An excellent read, and well worth the investment.
I learnt a lot about why we think the way we do and make decisions based on a whole lot of factors.
Would recommend to pretty much anyone, as there is something for everyone here.
Happy reading
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- Ollie
- 06-01-19
Excellent book that I found profound
this was an excellent book with many insights into how and why people think the way they do. this book had a very profound impact on my understanding of the human thinking process.
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- Harry
- 16-10-18
incredibly informative
loved this mentally probing book! made me look at how I make decisions in a completely different light.
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- S C Grant
- 07-12-14
Thought-provoking
If you could sum up Thinking, Fast and Slow in three words, what would they be?
Rigorous,accessible and compelling
What other book might you compare Thinking, Fast and Slow to, and why?
Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational as it also focuses on research into how we think and behave.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
When we think we're thinking, who's really in charge?
Any additional comments?
Full of fascinating insights.
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- Windy3s
- 18-07-17
The way I think..!
I found the book really technical (very detailed) there's a PDF file you have to follow relevant to the book which I didn't have. I found it a bit hard to follow for a below average reader but the bits I took in have changed the way I thought I think and I now know what to do to help me make better decisions and spot errors by others. I will definitely reread in future to understand fully. This book is life changing.
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