Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
Interpretation
Slow thinking allows for careful consideration and deliberate decision-making.
In this quote, Daniel Kahneman highlights the importance of taking one's time to think things through rather than rushing decisions. Slow thinking represents a thoughtful, analytical approach that allows individuals to engage deeply with complex ideas, leading to more reasoned and effective outcomes.
In practice
Using this quote in a workshop focused 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.
Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.
The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.
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