Tag Archives: Daniel Kahneman

What Would You Actually Do?

Posted on October 27, 2021 by admin

What would you do if you had lived during a past atrocity? It’s easy to imagine what you would have done in that situation but how accurate can you be in your assessment? After all, values change greatly over time … Continue reading →

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“What You See Is All There Is”

Posted on September 19, 2019 by admin

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman talks about a concept he calls “what you see is all there is”. This involves overestimating the importance or prevalence of whatever is occupying a lot of your attention. When this occurs, your … Continue reading →

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Reframing Myself

Posted on August 1, 2019 by admin

I felt on edge for a while last night. It started with the caffeine in the sweet tea I had with my dinner and the cookies I had for dessert. That, along with watching a video of people getting angry … Continue reading →

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Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow

Posted on May 16, 2019 by admin

Last night, I finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The book is intended to reveal many of our cognitive shortcomings and show that our intuitions can often be incorrect even when they initially appear correct. Kahneman illustrates … Continue reading →

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Knowing What the Future Holds

Posted on May 6, 2019 by admin

Few things are as strange to me as when someone says “that’s just the way it is, and that’s the way it’ll always be”. Things may be a certain way now, but who says they have to be this way, … Continue reading →

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Regression to the Mean

Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin

This is an excerpt from Thinking, Fast and Slow about Daniel Kahneman’s time spent working with flight instructors in the Israeli Air Force. Kahneman starts off with one of the instructor’s responses to his point that rewarding good behavior is … Continue reading →

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