It’s time to reframe the classic battle between our heads and our hearts, between our reason and our intuition. Chess grandmasters can intuitively identify thousands of unique potential configurations of chess pieces simply by looking at the board. We can immediately recognize the face of someone whom we have not seen in years. The much lauded ability for humans to stop and reflect does not seem to be winning in the battle against the very human tendency to rely on our gut feelings and intuitions.įortunately, human intuitions are often amazing things. Misinformation is spreading on social media, political polarization is rising, science is being ignored. Indeed, the uniquely human ability to reason has seemingly had a tough go, recently. Furthermore, it is broadly thought that these two ways of thinking, often referred to as “System 1” and “System 2,” are entrenched in conflict, with our emotional intuitions often winning over our cold, calculating deliberations. The key insight from Kahneman’s book is that people have, in essence, two minds: one that allows for rapid intuitive responses and one that allows for slower and more reflective deliberation. Daniel Kahneman’s bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow brought decades of research in judgment and decision-making to the popular consciousness.
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