Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

November 11, 2011

Duration

1h 2m

Channel

Talks at Google

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

@Google Talks is proud to welcome hero of psychology, Daniel Kahneman. Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Daniel Kahneman

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  Psychologist and behavioral economist, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Talks at Google, featuring Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google explores Kahneman explains when intuition works, fails, and feels certain Daniel Kahneman frames thinking as two modes: an automatic, associative mode that generates impressions and feelings, and an effortful, attention-demanding mode that computes, monitors, and sometimes overrides those impressions.

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