Thinking Fast And Slow, Paperback Book, By: Daniel Kahneman

The godfather of behavioural science . Kahneman's steely analysis of the human mind and its many flaws remains perhaps the most useful guide to remaining sane and steady Josh Glancy The Sunday TimesThere have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow.Kahneman a winner of the Nobel Prize for economics distils a lifetime of research into an encyclopedic coverage of both the surprising miracles and the equally surprising mistakes of our conscious and unconscious thinking. He achieves an even greater miracle by weaving his insights into an engaging narrative that is compulsively readable from beginning to end. My main problem in doing this was preventing family members and friends from stealing my copy of the book to read it for themselves...this is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read William Easterly Financial TimesAbsorbing intriguing... By making us aware of our minds' tricks Kahneman hopes to inspire individuals and organizations to identify strategies to outwit them Jenni Russell Sunday TimesProfound . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be The Economist[Thinking Fast and Slow is wonderful of course. To anyone with the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind it is so rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd Michael Lewis Vanity FairIt is an astonishingly rich book: lucid profound full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently entertaining and frequently touching especially when Kahneman is recounting his collaboration with Tversky . So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky's work 'will be remembered hundreds of years from now' and that it is 'a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.' They are Brooks said 'like the Lewis and Clark of the mind' . By the time I got to the end of Thinking Fast and Slow my skeptical frown had long since given way to a grin of intellectual satisfaction. Appraising the book by the peak-end rule I overconfidently urge everyone to buy and read it. But for those who are merely interested in Kahenman's takeaway on the Malcolm Gladwell question it is this: If you've had 10000 hours of training in a predictable rapid-feedback environment-chess firefighting anesthesiology-then blink. In all other cases think The New York Times Book [Kahneman's disarmingly simple experiments have profoundly changed the way that we think about thinking . We like to see ourselves as a Promethean species uniquely endowed with the gift of reason. But Mr. Kahneman's simple experiments reveal a very different mind stuffed full of habits that in most situations lead us astray Jonah Lehrer The Wall Street Journal This is a landmark book in social thought in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smithand The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Nassim Nicholas Taleb author of 'The Black Swan'Daniel Kahneman is among the most influential psychologists in history and certainly the most important psychologist alive today... The appearance of Thinking Fast and Slow is a major event Steven Pinker author of The Language Instinct Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time. There may be no other person on the planet who better understands how and why we make the choices we make. In this absolutely amazing book he shares a lifetime's worth of wisdom presented in a manner that is simple and engaging but nonetheless stunningly profound. This book is a must read for anyone with a curious mind Steven D. Levitt co-author of 'Freakonomics'This book is a tour de force by an intellectual giant; it is readable wise and deep. Buy it fast. Read it slowly and repeatedly. It will change the way you think on the job about the world and in your own life Richard Thaler co-author of 'Nudge'[A tour de force of psychological insight research explication and compelling narrative that brings together in one volume the high points of Mr. Kahneman's notable contributions over five decades to the study of human judgment decision-making and choice . Thanks to the elegance and force of his ideas and the robustness of the evidence he offers for them he has helped us to a new understanding of our divided minds-and our whole selves Christoper F. Chabris The Wall Street JournalThinking Fast and Slow is a masterpiece - a brilliant and engaging intellectual saga by one of the greatest psychologists and deepest thinkers of our time. Kahneman should be parking a Pulitzer next to his Nobel Prize Daniel Gilbert Professor of Psychology Harvard University author of 'S