*Major New York Times Bestseller
*More than 2.6 million copies sold
*One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the
year
*Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction
books of the year
*Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
*Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael
Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our
Minds
In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman,
world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics,
takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two
systems that drive the way we think.
System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more
deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on
corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us
happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on
everything from playing the stock market to planning our next
vacation--each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two
systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think,
Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we
can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and
enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and
our personal lives--and how we can use different techniques to guard
against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping
bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a
contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of
millions of readers.
