Amazon.nl: Klantenrecensies: Thinking, Fast and Slow (English Edition)

Beoordeeld in Nederland op 15 september 2021

Personally, the book was somewhat disappointing, given most of these concepts were known to me, and did not add a lot of new elements.

Also, the style of writing tends to be a bit long winded at some points.

For all of those who are completely new to this field, I would definitely recommend.

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Sia

Ugh that I am going

Beoordeeld in Nederland op 22 november 2014

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Video game in which players will not sure how many of you know I know what time is your phone to

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Nuttig

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Rajesh Kumar

Slog but Wise

Beoordeeld in Nederland op 29 augustus 2021

At the end of every chapter, you get the author's point but don't understand why he had to strain it with multiple examples when a few was enough. Please don't pick this up if you're trying to get out of a reading slog. Having said that I would still recommend it.

Nuttig

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Dr W. H. Konarzewski

Essential wisdom. Not an easy read but worth persevering.

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 9 december 2018

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Why do people buy extended warranties that are bad value for money?
Why do we marry people just because they're good in bed?
Why do investors snatch small profits from winning investments whilst allowing large losses to build up in bad investments?
Why do parents deny their children life saving vaccinations for fear of unproven risks?
Why do we think a bird in the hand is worth two in a bush?

On the whole humans are incredibly good at making bad decisions because they allow emotions and moral values to prevail over good sense and simple mathematical calculation. We make snap decisions based on our intuition (fast thinking) and often believe our intuition is superior to logic (slow thinking). For example, President Trump recently said he preferred to listen to his 'gut' than his advisors.

Kahneman examines the reasons why we make bad decisions and indicates ways in which we might make better decisions - even if the better decisions make us feel uncomfortable because they are counterintuitive.

My only problem with this book is that it is so laborious in places that I almost lost interest. Sometimes Kahneman goes on and on about a proposition that has (at least for me) zero interest. If he asks 'How much would you pay for a bowl of roses valued at $59?' I don't have an answer because I'm simply not interested and I don't want to know how much anyone else would pay, or why they would or wouldn't pay it. Perhaps it's just me, but I found some of the propositions too complex to bother with. But to be fair there were some chapters that had me spellbound - maybe because they touched on areas where I make bad decisions.

Overall, this is an important book but spoiled by too much dense argument and irrelevant illustration. It could have contained all the salient points and been reduced to half the length without any dilution of the message.

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Binod

Poor paper quality

Beoordeeld in India op 26 september 2018

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Don't go with this product. The size of the letters are so small that, I bet, you can't read a page comfortably. I'm not saying anything about the content of the book. The paper quality of the book especially, the size of letters, is so poor that u will regret buying this book. Now it's ur choice.

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@Timothy_Hughes

Understand How You Can Be Manipulated on Social Media

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 5 april 2018

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Certainly the most thought provoking book I've read in a long time, so much so I've written a blog about it's conclusion and the impact on social media. More importantly how people are being manipulated on social media by people using the "techniques" outline in this book.
It's not an easy book to read so not one for the beach, but push through and there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

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D. Smyth

Maybe I'm just thick

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 23 november 2020

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I'm about 20% of the way through and I am going to struggle to finish this. It started really good, talking about intuitive decision-making vs deliberate and gave a few examples of how our brains can be tricked, but then it never moves on. The whole book is just examples of how we can be wrong, written in infuriating 'you think this because you are so-and-so' language. The book is aimed squarely at Americans as are the examples and the author's assumptions. One 'trick' was explained based on 'because you sang your ABCs as a child". No I didnt, so if that's your basis for the explanation then what now? I just read a section about heuristics but with no explanation of what heuristics involves. The average person on the street doesn't use heuristics. Just thinking about this book is annoying me. You won't get wisdom from this book in my opinion, but imagine if someone listed all their life mistakes and gave you it. You could make a note to not make the same ones, but would you really have learned anything? Maybe if you're planning to enter a psychological 'temple of doom' it's useful to know where the traps are.

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R Pay

Not going to transform gold to a diamond. May turn coal into silver.

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 14 april 2019

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This book will help you understand some concepts of thinking and problem solving. This may then help you in your day to day life. What it doesn't do is turn a very high achiever, into a nobel prize winner. There is a law of diminishing returns. Might help someone who is from a public school with no life skills coaching to think better. However, if you come from the type of background where both parents are psychologists/psychiatrists, it may not exactly be enlightenment.

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Repetitive and impossible to engage with

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 4 juni 2020

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I bought this book as I am fascinated with the general topic of the thought processes. It has sat on my bookshelf for over two years which shows either I wasn't that interested or something else was putting me off.
Pick up the book and you see there are well over 400 pages using a very small type.
Recently I've tried to engage with the book a couple of times but, as a reader from a non academic background, I find it impossible as it is dull to read and repeats to many of the details.
Clearly a lot of people think this book is great but maybe they are coming at it from the viewpoint of an academic study.
I was interested to read that the audio version is much more palatable so I may come back to that at some point in the future.

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abhishek y

Life changing experience

Beoordeeld in India op 4 september 2017

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This is so far the most original work I have read. Daniel takes behavior psychology to another level with strong data and references. It's a must read for everyone who believes in improving the habits relating to your sub-conscious thinking. A Nobel laureate of true genius.

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