The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
Interpretation
Deep thinking often involves quick decision-making.
This quote by Daniel Kahneman emphasizes the paradoxical idea that the most demanding and complex forms of thinking often occur when we are required to make rapid judgments or decisions. It highlights the mental challenge of reconciling slow, deliberate thought processes with the need for speed in our cognitive responses, suggesting that deep understanding can arise even in fast-paced situations.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a workshop on critical thinking skills.
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
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