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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

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Feb 03, 2013 Morgan Blackledge rated it really liked it

One of the greatest, most important, most gut wrenchingly boring books ever written by a human psychologist. Reading this book is like vitamins smell.

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Nov 04, 2016 Jurij Fedorov rated it it was amazing

A bit hard to rate. 4,5 stars because it's good but a bit too drawn out at times.

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I have a masters degree in psychology and the whole idea of there being fast and slow thinking brain modules seemed way oversimplified to me. Why would there even be a divide? Why not a slow progress from one to the other? But I was surpriced to discover that all the reviews I have read on the book have been wrong. This is not a book about a dichotomy of brain modules. It's a book on some of the ways we think an ...more

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Mar 20, 2014 GONZA rated it liked it

I do not deny that I was expecting something better considering all the talk about this book. Probably because of my past as a psychologist, several of these concepts, information, experiments, I had already known, also the author's style is not exactly easy and he also tends to be slightly repetitive, but maybe he's just picky. However I do not think it's a reading for everyone, I was almost dead of boredom before finishing the book.

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Aug 28, 2014 Mohammad Aboulwafa rated it liked it

The Author is quite impressive, however he didn't provide detailed interaction between both types of thinking. Also he exclusively used psychological research data ignoring other converging disciplines, this made the getting the whole picture lacking. ...more

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Apr 10, 2014 Georgia rated it really liked it

Good, but a hard read. It is written in a dry academic way. I felt like I was reading research papers, which is fine, I just needed to adjust my expectations.

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