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Tag Archives: Thinking Fast and Slow
Half the Battle
The first few days of this week were pretty rough for me and I was super tired by Tuesday night. I talked to a few friends before going to bed and they both gave me a lot of good things … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged breath work, friends, Half the Battle, learning, meditation, research, self-care, stretching, The Righteous Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow, understanding
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“What You See Is All There Is”
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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Tagged "What You See Is All There Is", Daniel Kahneman, psychology, reframing, Thinking Fast and Slow
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Reframing Myself
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
Posted in Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged "What Do You Do With the Mad That You Feel?", chinups, Daniel Kahneman, energy, Joe Rogan, juggling, Life Hacks, Mister Rogers, reframing, Reframing Myself, sleep, Thinking Fast and Slow, unicycling
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Logical Shortcomings
In a past post, I talked about some things I’ve learned regarding to reason and rationality. Books such as The Righteous Mind, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion have shown me just how irrational and unreasonable we … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, logic, Logical Shortcomings, rationality, reason, The Righteous Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow, Watching My Thoughts
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Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow
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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Tagged biases, Daniel Kahneman, emotions, errors, intuition, irrationality, Jonathan Haidt, reason, Review of Thinking Fast and Slow, System 1, System 2, The Righteous Mind, thinking, Thinking Fast and Slow, thoughts
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Knowing What the Future Holds
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
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Daniel Kahneman, emotion, intuition, Jonathan Haidt, Knowing What the Future Holds, reason, The Righteous Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow
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Regression to the Mean
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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Tagged causality, Daniel Kahneman, flight instructors, Israeli Air Force, progress, punishment, regression to the mean, reward, Thinking Fast and Slow
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Seeing More of the Bigger Picture
The past few years of my life have been unlike any others. Without even meaning to do so, I started on a path of radical self-improvement and experienced some major changes in several of my views. I still don’t know … Continue reading
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Tagged big ideas, big picture, books, progress, Seeing More of the Bigger Picture, self-improvement, The Righteous Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow, views
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