By: Noel Liemam on March 1, 2024
‘Thinking, Fast and Slow,’ by Daniel Kahneman is a highly recommended reading to anyone including leaders and aspiring leaders. He talked about the two ways in which our brain works, “System 1 and System 2. System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to the…
By: Elysse Burns on February 29, 2024
This was a challenging book. I found each idea made sense on its own, but I struggled to connect the ideas to get the big picture. I became a bit suspicious that I might be part of Kahneman’s research project to observe ways doctoral students panic when they do not fully understand the assigned reading.…
By: Joel Zantingh on February 29, 2024
A few weeks ago, in my post related to Tim Harford’s cautions around data, I made the connection to my mode of making fast connections, even being duped by data that supports pre-conceived theories [1]. This week, with my encounter with Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow”, I was drawn back to a similar caution.…
By: Chad Warren on February 29, 2024
A couple of months ago, I had my first Tesla experience. When my plane landed in Austin, TX, I headed straight to the rental car counter to gain access to my ride for the next week, a 2023 Tesla. Among the many curiosities I had about driving a Tesla, I was looking forward to experiencing…
By: Christy Liner on February 29, 2024
Working remotely comes with an abundance of perks. My favorite is the flexibility to handle family affairs, especially during the summer when the kids are out of school. It does, however, come with downsides as well. Much of what I do at work contains system 2 thinking, while many things around the home, like laundry,…
By: Chris Blackman on February 29, 2024
I know I have shared this in a few posts already, but it applies to Kahneman’s book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” It is used elsewhere also but is a big focal point for those in recovery – the acronym HALT – Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired. Being self-aware is critical to staying sober. It is also…
By: Ryan Thorson on February 29, 2024
During college I suffered a torn ACL that later required surgery. Because I was a part of the football team, my trainer was responsible for my rehab. He was a bit of a no-nonsense guy, a perfect trainer for a college football athlete. After the initial surgery, there is a period of rest to allow…
By: Kari on February 29, 2024
In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman talks about two different thinking “systems” of the brain, which he labels “System 1” and “System 2.”[1] I like to think of “System 1” as the gut and emotional reactive part of the brain. It functions on learned behavior, instinct and is subconscious.[2] “System 2” is…
By: Shela Sullivan on February 28, 2024
It took me a while to get into this book, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a mix of science, psychology and interpretation of stories.[1] I must admit that I did not completely get through the book, I felt rushed – I definitely want to read it slowly again. This is a fascinating book…
By: Diane Tuttle on February 28, 2024
As a general rule, I do not use my phone while driving. Several years ago, we were at a football watch party with friends. Between plays, the conversations were always interesting. On one nondescript Sunday afternoon, the conversation turned to driving while talking on the phone. Our friend Andy, who is a neuropsychologist, chimed in…
By: Debbie Owen on February 28, 2024
We were on a cross-country driving trip when I told my sister about how apparently, an angel had taken care of me. It was July 2020, the month when it finally dawned on most people that Covid wasn’t going away “in two weeks.” After an ugly divorce, my sister – younger than I am by…
By: Julie O'Hara on February 28, 2024
Is it “safer to pour apple juice down the drain or to take it to a toxic waste dump?”[1] Out of context it feels like such a foolish question, but concluding that a substance one has been blithely consuming for years is suddenly become toxic was the result of what Kahneman calls the availability heuristic.…
By: Nancy Blackman on February 28, 2024
As soon as I began reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, I felt my body tense with anxiety. I had to stop because the triggers were firing. The reason for the triggers is that I was, once again, recognizing the limits of my brain. For most…
By: Graham English on February 28, 2024
I’m a newbie to robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Like Neo in The Matrix, this feels like I’m going down a rabbit hole that I never wanted to explore. My son-in-law designs robotic farm equipment. He has designed computers that, when integrated into a combine, can harvest crops without a human in the cab. When…
By: Adam Cheney on February 27, 2024
A is for Anchor (Not so veiled attempt at anchoring my grade)[1] This week’s reading of Daniel Kahneman comes at a great time as I reflect on a meeting last week. In my meeting I had a quick System 1 reaction, followed by slowly processing it with System 2 thinking.[2] Though Kahneman’s book covers multiple…
By: Glyn Barrett on February 27, 2024
The Bat and Ball illustration[1] took me longer to get right than it should have, but that is probably the point. My impulsive System 1 took control, and intuition led me to the wrong answer. How could the answer not be 10 cents? So much for “Don’t think Blink![2]” When System 1 encounters a…
By: Joel Zantingh on February 26, 2024
I have plenty going on in my personal life to react to. I have trauma-impacted family situations that require my full non-anxious presence [1] and dynamics beginning to launch a network for peacemaking and reconciling work among Evangelicals which feels like offering a new map in an opposite direction from some more traditional routes churches…
By: Jeff Styer on February 26, 2024
After reading Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow I feel like the peddler in Esphyr Slobodkina’s children’s book Caps for Sale. In this book, a peddler who sells caps is having a day of no sales, he is tired and goes out into the countryside and falls asleep underneath a tree wearing all his…
By: Jennifer Eckert on February 25, 2024
Last week, Nex Benedict, a sixteen-year-old non-binary student was beaten up at school by fellow students, and later died. The following day, when asked his thoughts on the matter, the Oklahoma State Senator for that district, Tom Woods, responded, “We are a religious state, and we are going to fight it to keep that filth…
By: Noel Liemam on February 25, 2024
This book, ‘A FAILURE OF NERVE’ by Edwin H. Friedman is a bit difficult and cumbersome for me to grasp for my week’s reading. So, I went back and forth between what others said about it, while doing my reading. This process helps me a lot. But I would still need more time to fully…
