Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Mentioned 3 times across 3 shows · first heard Jul 2025 on Mick Unplugged.
The general take
Jay Shetty finds Thinking, Fast and Slow genuinely eye-opening, particularly for understanding how our brains deceive us—he emphasizes that the intuitive brain we rely on most is actually the least trustworthy. He frames it as essential knowledge for anyone trying to navigate the world effectively, since it reveals our own minds are far less reliable than we assume.
About
*Major New York Times Bestseller *More than 2.6 million copies sold *One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year *Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year *Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient *Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow , Daniel Kahneman, world-famous 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.
Who said what
Jay Shetty👍 Recommends
…understanding cognitive biases and how intuition feels certain but isn't reliable
“Book number five, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The lesson, you have two brains and they're lying to each other. And the one you trust most is the one that's wronged most often. This book showed me that the machine I was using to navigate the world, my own brain, is far less reliable than I believed. Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize in economics despite being a psychologist, spent decades mapping the systematic errors in human judgment.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty — 10 Books That Changed My Lifeat 18:45
John R. Miles👍 Recommends
…discussing how beliefs relate to kahneman's dual system thinking model
“I've recently been rereading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. And when I think of beliefs, sometimes I think of it as our system one in action. And our choices then become our system two once we act on those beliefs.”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles — How Beliefs Shape Behavior, Motivation, and Resilience | Nir Eyal — EP 746at 23:15- DS
Darryl Stickel👍 Recommends
…books that have influenced darryl stickel's thinking on human behavior
“I think, uh, thinking fast, thinking slow by, uh, Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman. Okay. Okay. Is a good book. Um, exit voice and loyalty by Albert O. Hirschman, who looks at the different way that economists and, and political scientists think about how people react when things start to go wrong. Those are books that have really caused me to think.”
Mick Unplugged — Darryl Stickel: Unpacking Trust as a Leadership Superpowerat 00:34
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