For this reading reflection, I read Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. The book was written in 2011 and received a good amount of awards and positive reviews from well-known critics. In talking about the theme of the book, it revolves around the idea that the brain functions in two different ways. One way is through conscious logical thought, while the other is through automatic responses that you don't have control over to triggers in the environment. The book explains the details of each way of functioning and talks about how sometimes, even if both ways are being used, that paying attention to one over the other is advantageous.
This is used in the real world basically every day when decisions are being made. Whether someone is an entrepreneur and has to make decisions on how to start up a business, or a CEO of a well known company trying to make decisions to keep it on top, there are always decisions being made. In cases like these, the results of the decisions are extremely crucial and if the wrong decision is made it could be catastrophic. It would be very advantageous to use the right way of brain operation in these cases.
One thing people could do to test their thinking is be presented with different problems, puzzles, or clues, and each one requires a different way of thinking to solve them. This would help people realize which way of thinking should be used.
I also read this book and I got the same thing from it. It was a hard read for me but I don't read books all the time. When I read it I found a lot of thought experiments in the book just from reading it so there shouldn't have been any problem finding about that. It is crazy how bad people's emotional decisions are and how this book really explains all of that.
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