Thinking, Fast and Slow — the Gist

Your brain runs two operating systems — one fast and confident, one slow and careful — and the fast one is quietly making most of your decisions. Kahneman spent fifty years catching it in the act.

What you'll walk away with

• System 1 and System 2. The fast, intuitive autopilot versus the slow, effortful reasoner — and why the autopilot usually wins.
• The bias catalogue. Anchoring, loss aversion, overconfidence: the predictable ways smart people get it wrong.
• Catching biases live. The situations where you should distrust your gut and deliberately slow down.
• The two selves. Why the experiencing self and the remembering self disagree about what made you happy.

Who this is for

• Anyone who makes decisions with money, people, or risk on the line
• People who've overpaid for something and still aren't sure why
• Curious minds who want the science, not the pop-psych version

About the author

Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2002 for research on judgment and decision-making, much of it done with his longtime collaborator Amos Tversky. Thinking, Fast and Slow, published in 2011, distilled five decades of that work. He died in March 2024.