The Characters of the Story – Meet System 1 (fast) and System 2 (slow).Attention and Effort – Deep thinking needs effort. The brain prefers to save energy.The Lazy Controller – The slow system often lets the fast one take over.The Associative Machine – Your brain quickly links things, even when it shouldn’t.Cognitive Ease – If something feels easy to process, we trust it more—even if it’s false.Norms, Surprises, and Causes – The brain looks for patterns and gets surprised when they break.

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Jumping to Conclusions – We make snap judgments on little information.How Judgments Happen – Quick feelings shape our decisions more than we realize.Answering an Easier Question – We often swap hard questions with easier ones without noticing.

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Mental Shortcuts and Mistakes🎲 Your brain uses shortcuts to save time—but they often lead to bad decisions.💡 Key Idea:These shortcuts, called heuristics, help us think fast, but they can mislead us. We trust small samples, remember dramatic events too much, and use stereotypes even when they’re wrong.

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Overconfidence📈 We think we know more than we actually do.💡 Key Idea:We believe in our own predictions and explanations too much. We rewrite the past to make it seem like it was obvious, and we trust expert opinions—even when they’re wrong.

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Prospect Theory & Loss Aversion – Losses hurt more than gains feel good.Framing Effects – Changing the wording of the same choice changes how we feel about it.

Your mind is fast and brilliant—but it’s also biased, lazy, and easily fooled. This book helps you spot the traps so you can think better.

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Small Numbers & Anchors – We over-trust small samples and let random numbers influence our choices.Availability – If something is easy to recall, we think it’s more common or important than it is.Stereotypes & Logic Errors – We judge based on appearances, not facts, and fall into logical traps.

How We Choose💡 The way choices are presented affects what we pick—even when the facts stay the same.💡 Key Idea:We don’t make decisions logically. We avoid losses more than we enjoy gains. And how a problem is framed (positive vs. negative) changes our choice.

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Final Thoughts🌿 Knowing your brain’s tricks doesn’t stop them—but awareness helps.💡 Key Idea:Even when you learn about these mental errors, they still happen. But being aware of them helps you think more clearly and make better choices.

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Two Ways of Thinking🧠 We all have two thinking systems: one fast and automatic, one slow and thoughtful.💡 Key Idea:Your brain switches between fast thinking (System 1) and slow thinking (System 2). Fast thinking is quick and effortless, but it often makes mistakes. Slow thinking is careful and accurate but takes more energy.

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Hindsight & Stories – We think events were predictable after they happen and create simple stories that ignore randomness.Experts & Planning Fallacy – Experts often get it wrong. We also underestimate how long things will take or how hard they’ll be.

Living vs. Remembering🕰️ You are two selves: one lives life, the other remembers it.💡 Key Idea:We experience life moment by moment, but our memory only keeps certain parts. The remembering self shapes how we judge our lives and make future choices—even if the memories aren’t accurate.

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Experiencing vs. Remembering – One part of you feels the moment; another part writes your life story. That second part makes most of your decisions.

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Understand how your mind really works—and why it often tricks you.

Major New York Times bestseller Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012 Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned 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. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

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Daniel Kahneman (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, notable for his work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology.With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973, Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982), and developed Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979). He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory. Currently, he is professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology.

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