Thinking, fast and slow
Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman is a 2011 Psychology & Mind book written by TED speaker Daniel Kahneman, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "The riddle of experience vs. memory: Daniel Kahneman on TED.com" (2010), 7.4M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 1 year after the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 2nd of 4 books by Daniel Kahneman on Books Worth Reading (1981–2021), by publication year.
- Edition: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011 · 528 pages
- Collections: Nobel Prize Winners
The paired TED talk
The riddle of experience vs. memory: Daniel Kahneman on TED.com (2010), the TED talk by Daniel Kahneman.
From the publisher
In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation―each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, 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 business and our personal lives―and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.