The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
Interpretation
Deep thinking often involves quick decision-making.
This quote by Daniel Kahneman emphasizes the paradoxical idea that the most demanding and complex forms of thinking often occur when we are required to make rapid judgments or decisions. It highlights the mental challenge of reconciling slow, deliberate thought processes with the need for speed in our cognitive responses, suggesting that deep understanding can arise even in fast-paced situations.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a workshop on critical thinking skills.
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me
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