Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
Interpretation
Slow thinking allows for careful consideration and deliberate decision-making.
In this quote, Daniel Kahneman highlights the importance of taking one's time to think things through rather than rushing decisions. Slow thinking represents a thoughtful, analytical approach that allows individuals to engage deeply with complex ideas, leading to more reasoned and effective outcomes.
In practice
Using this quote in a workshop focused 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.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.
Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
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