Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman is a book about two systems of thinking, an automated one and an “effortful” one. [1] This book is filled with so many ideas that a reader could discuss. For the purpose of this post, I have chosen four topics from the book to consider briefly.<\/p>\n
The first of these is something the author called “priming”. [2] This is when something is done that cues right behaviors. The example was given at work using the honesty box for the coffee. This made me think of my own workplace. Too often, when the boss is not watching, people are not working. They lounge around in unused classroom spaces or offices and visit. I smiled thinking perhaps we needed to post his watchful eyes around those locations in the building to discourage this type of behavior. I wondered if it would be as effective as it was with the coffee honesty box.<\/p>\n
The second thought I had came from something that was probably obscure in the reading. I will share it anyway. The author suggested that we ought to put our ideas in verse form to make them more likely to be taken as words of truth. [3] Southerners are known for their ability to turn a phrase, that is for certain. I would like to share just a few with you, and their meanings. If you ask someone if they want something, and they say, “Does a chicken have lips?” You might think they mean “No”, but actually, it is an emphatic “Yes”. If you are explaining something to someone and they don’t get it, or preaching to a dead crowd and they gaze at you blankly, you could say they “look like a calf staring at a new gate”. Lastly, if someone is in a foul mood, you might ask them, “Who licked the red off your candy?”<\/p>\n
Thirdly, the author mentioned the importance of higher education and goal setting and the striking evidence of lifelong effects these have on people. [4] I can attest to this in my own life. I grew up a child of an alcoholic father, and very poor. I am one of many children. None of my siblings had ever graduated from high school, and there are 6 that are older than I am. Much less had they aspired to go to college. I was the first to make a decision for Christ in my family, and it changed me forever. I made up my mind as a teenager that I would graduate high school, go to college, and serve God internationally afterward as a missionary. I didn’t waiver from my goals. I knew if God could use others that had been in situations like mine before me, then He could use me as well. He has, and He continues to use me every day.<\/p>\n
Finally, Kahneman mentioned that once you adopt a new view of the world, you lose your ability to remember much of what it was like before you changed your mind. [5] This made me think about my new life in Christ, and the transformation that He wrought in me. I was young, only ten years old, when my life changed forever because of Christ. I can remember that before knowing Him, I thought that Jesus Christ was a curse word. I didn’t know He was an actual Person that lived on earth, much less God incarnate. I remember the night I accepted Him as my Savior. To be very honest though, my whole life has been centered around knowing Him and serving Him, therefore it would be very difficult to recall much of what it was like in detail before knowing Him. Of course, I would never choose to go back now that I have found grace.<\/p>\n
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[2]\u00a0 Kahneman, p. 57.<\/p>\n
[3] \u00a0Kahneman, p. 63.<\/p>\n
[4]\u00a0 Kahneman, p. 401-402.<\/p>\n
[5]\u00a0 Kahneman, p. 202.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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