Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

20 mentors recommend this 528 pages

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. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive

ISBN: 9781535535830

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Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant

Business & Entrepreneurship
""Fine book but it didn’t need to be an entire book.""
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"Fine book but it didn’t need to be an entire book. A blog post would have gotten the point across."
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"Fine book but it didn’t need to be an entire book. A blog post would have gotten the point across."

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Scott Adams

Scott Adams

Comedy

"Persuasion Reading List."

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"One of the books on Scott Adams' "Persuasion Reading List."

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Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers

Business & Entrepreneurship

"If you liked “Predictably Irrational” or “Stumbling on Happiness” or any of those pop-psychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work. Huge thorough book gives a great overview of much of his work. Read the other quotes on Amazon about it."

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"If you liked 'Predictably Irrational' or 'Stumbling on Happiness' or any of those pop-psychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work."

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Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty

Philosophy & Religion

"[One] of my favourite books."

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Preston Pysh

Media & Journalism

"An incredible book!"

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"@huishhodl That's an incredible book! We have a summary guide of the book here if it's helpful to you."

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Bryan Johnson

Bryan Johnson

Technology

"I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life."

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Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand

Business & Entrepreneurship

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

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Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio

Finance & Investing

"Ray Dalio mentioned this book in his book, "Principles."

Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen

Finance & Investing

"Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale?"

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Ron Conway

Ron Conway

Finance & Investing

"Covers all three phases of the author's career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness."

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Jason Fried

Jason Fried

Business & Entrepreneurship

"@invinciblesaad I enjoyed that book, too. Fascinating."

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Tom Peters

Business & Entrepreneurship

"@geriwithetc @TwinsKevin @mayawiley @BeschlossDC @AliVelshi @kaitlancollins @scribe827 @ChrisCuomo I am an absolute maniac on the topic of cognitive biases of evey flavor. So much fun. (The “bible” is Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.)"

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Michiko Kakutani

Michiko Kakutani

Media & Journalism

"The book “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman - a psychologist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics - has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs."

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Ben Greenfield

Ben Greenfield

Health & Medicine

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Ev Williams

Ev Williams

Business & Entrepreneurship

"I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. This is a treasure trove of both. Turns out, our brains are constantly misleading us. It’s not clear that learning how that’s the case reduces the chances of it happening, but it’s fascinating nonetheless."

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Sam Altman

Sam Altman

Business & Entrepreneurship

"One of Sam Altman's answers to "What are some of the best books you recommend for a young startup founder?"

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Mark Manson

Mark Manson

Content Creator

"Mark Manson recommended this book on his website."

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Nassim Taleb

Nassim Taleb

Finance & Investing

"A landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud."

Samantha Power

Samantha Power

Politics & Government

"A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more:"

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