{"id":29320,"date":"2022-10-29T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T00:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=29320"},"modified":"2022-10-29T17:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T00:55:56","slug":"system-of-a-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/system-of-a-daniel\/","title":{"rendered":"System of A Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking Fast and Slow, covers a lot of material within its five hundred and thirty-three pages. He deals with two different ways of thinking, which he calls system one and system two. System one is our automatic or fast side of thinking, while system two is our more deliberate or slow way of thinking. Kahneman says, \u201cI describe mental life by the metaphor of two agents, called System 1 and System 2, which respectively produce fast and slow thinking. I speak of the features of intuitive and deliberate thought as if they were traits and dispositions of two characters in your mind.<\/span>[1]<\/span><\/a>\u201d These two systems in our brain constantly compete for control to see who is in charge, and it is this competition that can make us prone to errors, mistakes or wrong decisions. The book makes a case for the times you can and can\u2019t trust your intuition or \u201cgut feeling\u201d (my wife has it down to a science). To better understand Kahneman\u2019s idea of intuition, he quotes for us who many consider the leading founder in the study of decision-making, Herbert Simons saying, \u201cThe situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.<\/span>[2]<\/span><\/a>\u201d There is so much more in the book that would take more than our allotted seven hundred and fifty words to explain.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to talk about this definition by Herbert Simons on intuition and how it applies to us as doctoral students. But to do that I need to tell you about my mom. My mom is a fantastic cook. She is one of those people who measures by feel. She doesn\u2019t need measuring cups, recipes, instructions, guidelines, or door dash. She can taste a dish and almost instantly recreate it. You would think my mom is a trained chef. She has been asked by dozens of people to cater weddings, business events, and dinner parties. When I ask my mom about her ability to create food, she always says it\u2019s just her \u201cintuition .\u201dMy mom grew up in a family where she always cooked, she started at around seven, helping to cook, and it grew from there. So now she is at the point where she can create almost anything or recognize almost any taste based on what Herbert Simons would say is \u201cnothing less than recognition .\u201dSo, I call her whenever I am cooking or trying to cook. I tell her what I want to do and what I have on hand, and from there, she can guide me on the path to success to cooking a delicious dish. One of these days, I will attempt to make chop suey which is similar to stir fry, but I will do it with her direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

As doctoral students, we need to trust the \u201cintuition\u201d of those leading us through this process. Kahneman says, \u201c\u2026 it is possible to distinguish intuitions that are likely to be valid from those that are likely to be bogus. As in the judgment of whether a work of art is genuine or a fake, you will usually do better by focusing on its provenance than by looking at the piece itself. If the environment is sufficiently regular and if the judge has had a chance to learn its regularities, the associative machinery will recognize situations and generate quick and accurate predictions and decisions. You can trust someone\u2019s intuitions if these conditions are met.<\/span>[3]<\/span><\/a>\u201d We can trust their \u201cintuition\u201d about our projects because they have been through it and can recognize patterns that we are yet unable to see.<\/span><\/p>\n

This applies to so many areas in my life and highlights where I am falling short. In his book,\u00a0<\/span>A Long Obedience In The Same Direction<\/span><\/em>, author Eugene Peterson says, \u201cEveryone who travels the road of faith requires assistance from time to time.<\/span>[4]<\/span><\/a>\u201d If I am going to achieve what is in my heart to achieve I need to lean on someone that like my mom \u201cjust knows\u201d simply because they have been down this road and help guide me on the way I am to go.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>[1]<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Daniel Kahneman,\u00a0<\/span>Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011), 15.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Daniel Kahneman,\u00a0<\/span>Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011), 200.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Daniel Kahneman,\u00a0<\/span>Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011), 205.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Eugene H. Peterson,\u00a0<\/span>Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(S.l.: IVP, 2019), 15.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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