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.
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
One's thoughts turn towards Hope.
The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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