An Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Jacqueline Allan

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition – which springs from “fast” but broad and emotional thinking – rather than engaging in the slower, harder, but surer thinking that stems from logical, deliberate decision-making. Written in a lively style that engages readers in the experiments for which Kahneman won the Nobel, Thinking, Fast and Slow’ s real triumph is to force us to think about our own thinking.

95 pages, Paperback

Published February 21, 2018

Reviews

[Courtney · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit repetitive. I should probably just reread/re-listen to the book as I recall enjoying it.
Still liked hearing about the book and the broad strokes. I don’t recall Thinking Fast and Slow mentioning Malcolm Gladwell—maybe they were discussing him since Kahneman has spoken about him?

[Michael Mariano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Concise summary

[Marycha 🪐 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not find anything to takeaway from all this. I think it’s either basically common knowledge because this theory has spread since then, or I don’t find it convincing.