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.

87 pages, Kindle Edition

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.