Thinking, Fast and Slow

What I thought about this book is just exactly how the title is. You think both fast and slow but Daniel Kahneman makes you more aware of the reason why you are reading it fast or slow. He gives numerous examples of everyday life situations and reasons why we make the choices we make. Sometimes I can understand fully the complex choices we make in life and then other times I have to take longer to get the point he is getting across. He definitely spent a lot of research on studying the human mind and the way it works. I recommend this book if you are interested in psychology and human behavior.

This is probably the most impactful book I've ever read, for the way it changed how I see the world around me. This is supposed to be about an author that writes about his ideas and research, but the way it is told, the fact that he writes about himself doing the same mistakes he writes about, makes all seem so visible and close that you will start to see those behaviours around you, and you will start understanding the real reason why you and others behave and make decisions the way you do.

This book helps understand how we make decisions. :) The intuition is a crucial part of our decision making process. We train it unconsciously by collecting facts and building associations. The big problem in this process is that the intuition doesn't care about statistics and is prone to jump to conclusions based on limited available information. Our conscious part of the brain is supposed to verify and approve or reject such conclusions, however this is a laborious process which requires much energy.