![]() ![]() The mistake, as Kahneman explains, comes from the caricature of a male librarian (mild and detail-oriented) that we carry in our minds. Is Steve more likely a librarian or a farmer? Most people would answer librarian, and they would be wrong. Steve is mild-mannered and detail-oriented. The reason is that system 1 kicks in when system 2 is more appropriate - or, to put it another way, our trusted intuition can lead us to the wrong answers and the wrong conclusions. While these two systems would seem to be well-designed for dealing with the world, in truth, writes Kahneman, the systems create some problems. ![]() System 2 is an ‘effortful’ system - a slow-thinking system that requires an effort (and some time) for us to arrive at the answer. ![]() System 1 is an intuitive-based ‘automatic’ system that can be summarized as fast thinking. ![]() In our minds, writes psychologist and former Princeton University professor Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow, there are always two systems at work. What is 17 x 24? We can arrive at the answer, but only after a little work. What is 2+2? The answer that comes immediately to mind is, of course, 4. ![]()
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