Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Book Club

Pages to read: 444
ISBN: 9780374533557 (Originally listed edition, and edition I am Using)

While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•Why does the brain need to manage energy use?
•How does the brain reduce strain on its energy?
•What are heuristics?
•What are System 1 and System 2? What does each do?
•How do System 1 and System 2 interact?
•Why do decisions have systemic biases?
•How does attention get distributed?
•What is WYSIATI?
•What happens to counterfactuals?
•How is the model of the world constructed? How is it different from the real world?
•How to avoid systemic biases?
•What is the law of least effort?
•What is ego depletion?
•What is the purpose of coherence?
•Is something that is familiar also true?
•What is the availability heuristic?
•What is the confirmation bias?
•What is the halo effect?
•What is the affect heuristic?
•What is the anchoring effect?
•What is the planning fallacy?
•What is the law of small numbers?
•How can randomness be identified?
•What is the regression to the mean?
•What is the illusion of skill?
•What is the prospect theory?
•What is tyranny of the remembering self?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.

My review of the book:
https://www.inquiryreviews.com/2020/11/review-of-thinking-fast-and-slow-by.html

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Summary from Goodreads:
Major New York Times bestseller

Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 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. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems 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. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking*, Fast and Slow* is destined to be a classic.