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.
I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.
It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
By moderation one can be generous.
When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought.
Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.
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