opfopti.blogg.se - Thinking fast and slow

Being able to quickly decide what to eat can help you with thinking faster.Īfter all, even if your decision wasn’t the best, the consequences are small. Eating is important, but the decision between a salad, chicken, or beef is inconsequential. We are faced with many decisions over the course of the day but, some of them aren’t as important as others. The next question is how does one increase speed? That answer is through a variety of ways that I’ve listed below. The list is extensive but the idea is: the stronger your brain is, the more you can leverage it in many aspects of life.

You also will experience faster reaction times.

Faster thinking will also keep your brain mentally sharp.

Faster thinking also ties into planning, problem-solving, goal setting, and being able to focus.

When people are asked to think fast, they are happier, more creative, energetic, and self-confident.

While most of the pioneering work in this area has been done by Kahneman and coauthors himself, lots of credit is also given to other contributors, so if one is looking for an authoritative survey of this field, at the same time superbly written and intelligible also to non-experts, there is no better book than this.⌄ Scroll down to continue reading article ⌄ And much of the book is then devoted to showing how System 1 und System 2 cooperate (most of the time) or obstruct each other (sometimes). System 2, on the other hand, requires active participation by the owner of the brain and is therefore much more demanding and much slower. It is this field of cognitive heuristics and biases that Kahneman and Tverski have dominated over the last decades, two of their most influential papers are reprinted here in full.

This it does surprisingly well, but sometimes various shortcuts are compromising its efficiency. The first, the fast one, is System 1: System 1 is always working in the background, without our conscious mind being actively involved, trying to make sense of the myriads of information items rushing in at any interval of time. The most far-reaching of these insights concerns the mechanics of the human brain, which Kahneman views as two coexisting modes of thinking (“fast and slow”, as the title says).