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Book · 2011 · Psychology

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman · Brought up by 76 people on 29 podcasts

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman has been mentioned in 117 episodes across 29 podcasts (29 episodes recommend it and 88 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Angela Duckworth (8 episodes), Jay Shetty (2 episodes) and Michael Mauboussin (2 episodes) on Freakonomics Radio (15 episodes), Modern Wisdom (13 episodes) and Lenny's Podcast (9 episodes).

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I realized that like I needed some more how and as I was looking around the space I realized that there's kind of a gap in this literature that's you know I would say thinking fast and slow is like the center piece of this literature which is such obviously an incredible book that everybody should read.
Annie Duke · ChooseFI · Oct 2020 Listen at 3:54

Questions about Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Who recommends Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman on podcasts?

Angela Duckworth (2 episodes), Jay Shetty (2 episodes), Michael Mauboussin (2 episodes), Stephen Dubner (1 episode) and Chris Williamson (1 episode) have recommended Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman on podcasts. In all, 76 people brought it up across 29 podcasts (26 people recommended it).

Which podcasts mention Thinking, Fast and Slow the most?

Freakonomics Radio (15 episodes), Modern Wisdom (13 episodes), Lenny's Podcast (9 episodes), No Stupid Questions (8 episodes) and People I (Mostly) Admire (8 episodes), among 29 podcasts in all.

Is Thinking, Fast and Slow recommended, or only discussed?

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman was recommended in 29 episodes, discussed without a recommendation in 86 episodes, and critiqued in 2 episodes, as of 2026-11-02.

What do people say about Thinking, Fast and Slow?

Annie Duke on ChooseFI (2020-10-19): "I realized that like I needed some more how and as I was looking around the space I realized that there's kind of a gap in this literature that's you know I would say thinking fast and slow is like the center piece of this literature which is such obviously an incredible book that everybody should read."

When was Thinking, Fast and Slow last mentioned on a podcast?

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman was last discussed on Modern Wisdom by Chris Williamson on 2026-11-02.

What they say about it

Grouped from 117 episodes
  • System one and system two“system one versus system two thinking”
    15
  • Life changing or blockbuster bestseller
    3
  • Cognitive biases and heuristics“cognitive biases prospect theory and happiness”
    3

The best things said about it

6 of 152 · every mention
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Reading Danny Conaman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow, really was just a life-changing experience for me and so many other people.
Steve Levitt People I (Mostly) Admire · Apr 2025
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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 wrong most often.
Jay Shetty On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Apr 2026
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Thinking Fast and Slow by kman and tersi it's just everything you think you know about the way your brain perceives the world and how you make decisions is wrong.
Ben Gilbert Acquired · Dec 2023
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Daniel Kahneman and thinking fast and slow was kind of just, I think, a really great overall kind of modern guide to thinking, if that isn't a little too pretentious. Or too precious, rather. But that's one of my favorite books.
Nate Silver Freakonomics Radio · Apr 2015
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I like this book uh thinking fast thinking slow. I think that's also a classic because again uh you know there's always a human element to things and understanding the customer psychology is important.
Madhavan Ramanujam Lenny's Podcast · Jul 2025
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He's the author of the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow that summarizes in an accessible way his research of several decades often in collaboration with Amos Tversky a cognitive biases prospect theory and happiness.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2020

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Number 3 of the most mentioned books on podcasts in 2024

How it comes up

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Top 9 of 29 shows

76 people who brought it up

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Why people recommend it

Thinking, Fast and Slow is a popular psychology and behavioral economics book by Daniel Kahneman that explores cognitive biases, human judgment, and the dual systems that drive how people think. The book was widely recommended across multiple podcasts. Jay Shetty appeared on On Purpose with Jay Shetty to explain that the book teaches how humans have two competing minds that frequently deceive one another. Martin Fowler spoke on The Pragmatic Engineer, recommending the text as a helpful tool for building numerical intuition and recognizing reasoning errors. Similarly, Jason Droege and Madhavan Ramanujam both discussed the book on Lenny's Podcast, connecting its insights on human behavior to customer psychology and recognizing cognitive biases, while Ethan Smith suggested applying its persuasion and behavioral economics frameworks directly to growth strategies. David Robertson mentioned on Conversations with Tyler that he assigns the work to his students. On People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt told guest Jens Ludwig that reading the book was a life-changing experience and prompted him to explain the concept of system one versus system two thinking.

Every mention

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Angela Duckworth but Danny conman did write a great book too you know thinking fast and slow and in the book Dany talks abou… 8
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“that's why Danny called his bestselling book thinking fast and slow because thinking fast is using system one and thinking slow is using system two”
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“That's why Danny called his bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, because thinking fast is using system one and thinking slow is using system two.”
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“she actually refers to system one and system two thinking I think you're pretty familiar with this idea from Danny Conan”
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“as written about in the great Danny conoman Thinking Fast and Slow he's so great Danny Conan he is”
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“but Danny conman did write a great book too you know thinking fast and slow and in the book Dany talks about priming research”
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“Yeah, no, I think they're wrong. But Daniel Kahneman did write a great book too, you know, Thinking, Fast and Slow.”
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“one of the things that some readers took from Thinking Fast and Slow was the idea that priming was really important”
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“You know, one of the things that some readers took from Thinking, Fast and Slow was the idea that priming was really important. But what then happened after Daniel Kahneman published Thinking, Fast and Slow was that there was a huge controversy about whether it was true.”
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“It's one of Danny Kahneman's inventions, but has gotten less attention than, like, Thinking, Fast and Slow and cognitive biases and so forth. I've absolutely heard of it; I think it's a fascinating concept!”
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“dunning-kruger reminds me of something that Danny Kahneman wrote in his book thinking comma fast and slow which is a line I really love”
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“And as you've taught us all here via Danny Kahneman, I guess we do have this appetite for coherence, right? This is one of my major take-homes from Danny Kahneman. I know everyone thinks about thinking fast and slow and judgment decision-making and biases and heuristics, but I think one of his core insights is that human beings have certain”
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“this is one of my major take-homes from Danny Kahneman I know everyone thinks about thinking fast and slow and judgment decision making and biases and heuristics”
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“by the way people read thinking fast and slow and they watch a TED Talk and I think that we are actually newly aware of these evolutionarily explicable quirks of human reasoning”
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“So Dunning-Kruger reminds me of something that Danny Kahneman wrote in his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, which is a line I really love.”
Jay Shetty i mean i'm a huge fan of the book thinking fast and slow i don't know how if you've read it yeah it's a gre… 2
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“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 wrong most often.”
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“i mean i'm a huge fan of the book thinking fast and slow i don't know how if you've read it yeah it's a great book because for me it's got a really close pattern connection again to what i studied”
Michael Mauboussin But he, above all, has embodied that. And that's leaving aside, Patrick, as you pointed out, reading fast a… 2
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“But he, above all, has embodied that. And that's leaving aside, Patrick, as you pointed out, reading fast and thinking fast and slow, like all the lessons in there that people really should internalize.”
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“I think I would go with, uh, Danny Conman's book, thinking fast and slow. And, you know, the reason I, uh, and maybe it's just a personal taste, but I'm very fascinated by our decision-making processes as people.”
Stephen Dubner You may have heard that's the title of a a wonderful book by Danny Conaman. 10
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“One reason why emotional arousal is so effective is that it overwhelms our slow, deliberate, analytical cognitive processing that we sometimes call type two or system two. And it causes us to process things through system one, which is quick, intuitive, where we often rely on these heuristic shortcuts.”
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“You may have heard that's the title of a a wonderful book by Danny Conaman.”
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“I believe it was in Thinking Fast and Slow where Danny wrote not only are we blind but we are blind to our blindness”
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“Daniel Conan is perhaps best known as the author of thinking fast and slow but he also helped revolutionize the fields of both psychology and economics”
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“you may be familiar with system 1 and system two from the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman”
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“and I know that Danny Kahneman wrote about what Nasim Talib calls the narrative fallacy and Danny wrote about that in Thinking Fast and Slow he wrote”
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“I read this as a little bit of an analog to Danny Kahneman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow. Are you familiar with Danny Endor, his book?”
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“and there are books you know thaler has published a book misbehaving on it kahneman's book thinking fast and slow really opened a lot of eyes around the world”
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“The notion of automaticity was drawn in large part from the worldview of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, whose work we often discuss on this show. In fact, the research paper that Heller and the others would write is called Thinking Fast and Slow, which is the same name as Kahneman's 2011 book.”
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“Sutherland here subscribes to the theories of Daniel Kahneman, the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, who suggests the brain engages in two distinct kinds of thinking, system one and system two, Kahneman calls it.”
Chris Williamson some of your listeners might be familiar with Daniel Kahneman best-selling book thinking faster slow now 9
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“It feels to me like system one, system two, thinking a bit from Daniel Kahneman, thinking fast and slow. So the system two is very deliberate and you sort of have to pay a lot of cognitive attention to it.”
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“So uh, Daniel Kahneman got super famous for this work; they got people to do, I think it was like colonoscopies or endoscopies or something, and they were able to track how long someone had been under this procedure and the amount of movement of the camera or whatever; more movement of the camera would mean more discomfort, so that”
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“if I can recite thinking fast and slow all of my problems will be turns out that that doesn't particularly work”
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“daniel kahneman that wrote thinking fast and slow he was on stage with sam harris five or six years ago”
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“so let's think about the system one versus system two thinking or the fast and slow from daniel kahneman the explore versus exploit that james clear talks about in atomic habits”
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“anybody that's read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman knows this you've got the instinctive response which is you system-1 and then you've got the slower more considered response”
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“some of your listeners might be familiar with Daniel Kahneman best-selling book thinking faster slow now”
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“You know, just go back through thinking fast and slow and start just picking up Daniel Kahneman quotes and studies.”
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“but for me personally I find it's a bit of an open loop when I've got a book that so Thinking Fast and Slow is a perfect example”
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“for me personally I find it's a bit of an open loop when I've got a book that so Thinking Fast and Slow is a perfect example”
Steve Levitt It's what Danny Conorman calls system one versus system two thinking. Can you explain to someone why those… 6
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“It's what Danny Conorman calls system one versus system two thinking. Can you explain to someone why those two modes of thinking matter? Reading Danny Conaman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow, really was just a life-changing experience for me and so many other people”
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“Take the example of Danny Conorman. He's the hugely influential founder of behavioral economics and the author of Thinking Fast and Slow.”
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“He proved he could connect with a popular audience as well; his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow was a blockbuster bestseller.”
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“so it's been roughly a decade since Thinking Fast and Slow was published and even though that book turned out to be a massive bestseller I still can't believe you wrote another book because I remember it practicly killed you right in the last one wasn't it Torture”
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“So, it's been roughly a decade since Thinking, Fast and Slow was published, and even though that book turned out to be a massive bestseller, I still can't believe you wrote another book.”
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“I think because of books like Thinking, Fast and Slow, you've managed to convince laypeople that behavioral economics is the most powerful tool one has ever encountered.”
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“He has also proven he can connect with a popular audience; his 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, was a blockbuster bestseller.”
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“so it's been roughly a decade since Thinking Fast and Slow was published and even though that book turned out to be a massive bestseller I still can't believe you wrote another book”
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“It's been roughly a decade since Thinking, Fast and Slow was published, and even though that book turned out to be a massive bestseller, I still can't believe you wrote another book because I remember the last one practically killed you, right?”
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“So, you know, there's come to be a tremendous focus on using behavioral economics to create behavior change, to get either yourself to do something you don't want to do or get someone else to do something they don't want to do, whether it's the UK Nudge Unit or Angela Duckworth and Katie Milkman with their behavior change for good.”
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“I think because of books like Thinking, Fast and Slow, you've managed to convince laypeople that behavioral economics is the most powerful tool one has ever encountered.”
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“books like thinking fast and slow which is Danny's popular book have managed to convince lay people that behavioral economics is the most powerful tool one has ever encountered”
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“and yet most consumers food is systems one thinking this concept from Daniel kahneman's book thinking fast and slow”
Annie Duke as I was looking around the space I realized that there's kind of a gap in this literature that's you know… 2
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“I got asked uh in a class that I was teaching about um thinking fast and slow and someone was talking about you know how there's a lot of uh studies in there”
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“as I was looking around the space I realized that there's kind of a gap in this literature that's you know I would say thinking fast and slow is like the center piece of this literature which is such obviously an incredible book that everybody should read”
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“I realized that like I needed some more how and as I was looking around the space I realized that there's kind of a gap in this literature that's you know I would say thinking fast and slow is like the center piece of this literature which is such obviously an incredible book that everybody should read”
Edward O. Thorp it ties into a famous book Thinking Fast and Slow 2
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“it ties into a famous book Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Conan”
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“it ties into a famous book Thinking Fast and Slow”
Ben Gilbert my third one is a classic Thinking Fast and Slow by kman and tersi it's just everything you think you know… 1
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“my third one is a classic Thinking Fast and Slow by kman and tersi it's just everything you think you know about the way your brain perceives the world and how you make decisions is wrong”
Casey Winters Thinking Fast and Slow by uh Danny conman I took a lot of the behavioral economics classes in um my MBA pro… 1
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“Thinking Fast and Slow by uh Danny conman I took a lot of the behavioral economics classes in um my MBA program and and then his book came out like the year after”
Chad Carson what is this that's like my Splurge you know that's awesome 1
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“what is this that's like my Splurge you know that's awesome”
Daniel Goleman you know there's that a wonderful book Thinking Fast and Slow by Rani Connor man right 1
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“you know there's that a wonderful book Thinking Fast and Slow by Rani Connor man right”
David Robertson I make them read uh someone that you've had on the uh podcast before, Daniel Conan, drinking fast and slow. 1
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“I make them read uh someone that you've had on the uh podcast before, Daniel Conan, drinking fast and slow.”
Ethan Smith And I think especially in growth, there's all kinds of psychology research and behavioral economics researc… 1
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“And I think especially in growth, there's all kinds of psychology research and behavioral economics research to inform tests. And if you just read thinking fast and slow, persuasion, emotional intelligence, you can basically take those frameworks and apply it to growth”
Jason Droege I would also recommend uh uh uh thinking slow and fast, right? That's the Yes. Thinking fast and slow. Thin… 1
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“I would also recommend uh uh uh thinking slow and fast, right? That's the Yes. Thinking fast and slow. Thinking fast and slow.”
Joe Rogan Look, I've been reading this book called Thinking, Fast and Slow. It's a [__] phenomenal. I highly recommen… 1
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“Look, I've been reading this book called Thinking, Fast and Slow. It's a [__] phenomenal. I highly recommend it.”
Josh Dubin look I've been reading I've been reading this book called Thinking Fast and Slow have you heard it's a [ __… 1
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“look I've been reading I've been reading this book called Thinking Fast and Slow have you heard it's a [ __ ] phenomenal but I I highly recommend it”
Lex Fridman he's the author of the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow that summarizes in an accessible way his researc… 1
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“he's the author of the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow that summarizes in an accessible way his research of several decades often in collaboration with Amos Tversky a cognitive biases prospect theory and happiness”
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“in your book Thinking Fast and Slow you described two modes of thoughts as the one the fast instinctive an emotional one is system to the slower deliberate logical one”
Madhavan Ramanujam I like this book uh thinking fast thinking slow. I think that's also a classic because again uh you know th… 1
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“I like this book uh thinking fast thinking slow. I think that's also a classic because again uh you know there's always a human element to things and understanding the customer psychology is important”
Martin Fowler So, a book I I do particularly like to recommend is Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kaneman. I like it bec… 1
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“So, a book I I do particularly like to recommend is Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kaneman. I like it because um he does a really good job of trying to give you an intuition about numbers”
Nate Silver You know, I kind of often talk about Daniel Kahneman and thinking fast and slow was kind of just, I think,… 1
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“You know, I kind of often talk about Daniel Kahneman and thinking fast and slow was kind of just, I think, a really great overall kind of modern guide to thinking, if that isn't a little too pretentious. Or too precious, rather. But that's one of my favorite books.”
Naveen Rao so you may have read uh Daniel Conan's book Thinking Fast and Slow very you you know this is this is a grea… 1
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“so you may have read uh Daniel Conan's book Thinking Fast and Slow very you you know this is this is a great book if anyone hasn't read it um it actually has roots in neurobiology”
Scott Galloway Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. I've read that book a few times and I know everything about loss… 1
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“Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. I've read that book a few times and I know everything about loss aversion theory.”
Tom Hardin And um, yeah, I wasn't ready to go talk about it, or I didn't understand why I did what I did until I spoke… 1
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“And um, yeah, I wasn't ready to go talk about it, or I didn't understand why I did what I did until I spoke at the FBI and they're like, "Go read this!" You know, Daniel Kahneman! He... he got a Nobel Prize about this stuff!”
Tomer Cohen second book is thinking fast and slow um by Daniel canaman I'm I love Behavior economics when I think about… 1
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“second book is thinking fast and slow um by Daniel canaman I'm I love Behavior economics when I think about products I think I always start from people”
Vikrama Dhiman And the third book that I'll recommend is definitely Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. I think espe… 1
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“And the third book that I'll recommend is definitely Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. I think especially the thinking slow part becomes very very important piece as well.”
Chris Voss And the answer is secondary because the how or what question causes what we would refer to as deep thinking… 3
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“And the answer is secondary because the how or what question causes what we would refer to as deep thinking, slow thinking. Daniel Kahneman, behavioral economics, 'Thinking Fast and Slow.' Slow thinking is in-depth thinking.”
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“Daniel Kahneman, behavioral economics, Thinking Fast and Slow.”
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“you know what kahneman would has talked about in his book thinking fast and slow pondering he would call slow thinking in-depth thinking where you really think about stuff”
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“Danny Kahneman wrote a book called Thinking Fast and Slow”
Jordan Harbinger That stuff tends to make for good sound bites and go further, and this is sort of Daniel Kahneman’s system… 3
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“That stuff tends to make for good sound bites and go further, and this is sort of Daniel Kahneman’s system one thinking.”
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“and you know it has made its way into loads of really popular books including by really reliable and respected people like daniel kahneman there's loads of stuff in thinking fast and slow”
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“so even you who kind of maybe developed a lot of his tactic it works yeah a good question makes you slow thinking Danny Kahneman thinking in depth thinking”
Alex Kantrowitz Daniel Kahneman has this thing in thinking fast and slow where he talks about your experiencing self and yo… 2
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“Daniel Kahneman has this thing in thinking fast and slow where he talks about your experiencing self and your remembering self. And a lot of people would not take a vacation if they couldn't remember it afterwards.”
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“had some time off and decided that i was going to read a book i wanted to get around to for a long time thinking fast and slow by the nobel prize winning professor daniel kahneman”
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“but i think it's important for listeners especially those who haven't read the book um are you able to just describe um a little bit more uh what jan is talking about in terms of the way human beings uh think”
Daniel Kahneman Oh, I mean, Thinking, Fast and Slow was such an experience that after that, I had forgotten everything that… 2
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“Oh, I mean, Thinking, Fast and Slow was such an experience that after that, I had forgotten everything that was not in the book, so I really needed a new thing, and Noise was quite new.”
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“Oh, I mean, Thinking, Fast and Slow was such an experience that after that, I had forgotten everything that was not in the book, so I really needed a new thing and Noise was quite new.”
Daryl Morey To your point, humans are pretty bad at decisions. I'm pretty confident in that, including you have to put… 2
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“To your point, humans are pretty bad at decisions. I'm pretty confident in that, including you have to put the mirror to yourself and realize your own biases. And those are famous we've even written about in Thinking Fast and Slow and a lot of different books.”
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“To your point, humans are pretty bad at decisions. I'm pretty confident in that, including you have to put the mirror to yourself and realize your own biases. And those are famous we've even written about thinking fast and slow in a lot of different books.”
George Mack and I remember there's a line from Daniel canaman who wrote thinking fast and slow 2
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“and I remember there's a line from Daniel canaman who wrote thinking fast and slow”
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“so this is a quote from Amos tersi who was Daniel canan's writing partner on thinking fast and slow and when you hear it it's like as a writer like why didn't I write that that is so good”
Josh Clark Uh Daniel Conorman, he was a Nobel already a Nobel Prize winning um economist. Uh he wrote thinking fast an… 2
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“Daniel Conorman came out with thinking fast and slow which was one of those super popular airport books, you know. Yeah. Thinking, fast and slow. Yes. Thank you.”
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“Uh Daniel Conorman, he was a Nobel already a Nobel Prize winning um economist. Uh he wrote thinking fast and slow and it was essentially an introduction to um nudge economics and priming for the for the the average person. And it was a huge bestseller.”
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“Daniel Conorman, he was a Nobel already a Nobel Prize winning economist. He wrote thinking fast and slow and it was essentially an introduction to nudge economics and priming for the for the the average person. And it was a huge bestseller.”
Russ Roberts and she was very affected by Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Slow because her for many years she and her… 2
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“give an idea of how widespread this is this illusion because because someone might say reasonably oh Adam come on nobody everybody knows it's a somewhat flawed process nobody really um I don't think that's true I'm going to give you the example of um Daniel Kahneman uh Nobel Prize winner in economics who has a chapter in his book”
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“and she was very affected by Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Slow because her for many years she and her colleagues she felt had relied on gut feelings”
Adam Savage my father was in therapy for his whole life and read deeply about the philosophy I'm thinking it talked abo… 1
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“my father was in therapy for his whole life and read deeply about the philosophy I'm thinking it talked about that”
Alex O’Connor daniel kahneman that wrote thinking fast and slogan asked by sam harris on stage 1
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“daniel kahneman that wrote thinking fast and slogan asked by sam harris on stage”
Ali Abdaal I just read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Here's a summary of my key highlights, a thread. Tha… 1
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“I just read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Here's a summary of my key highlights, a thread. That kind of stuff. And they'll get millions and millions of views.”
Antonio Gracias and you read that you fast and slow Conor and Trubisky stuff about cognitive bias throughout his most quali… 1
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“and you read that you fast and slow Conor and Trubisky stuff about cognitive bias throughout his most qualified decision makers we deal with don't make a lot of cognitive errors”
Asi Wind they talk about it in in their work you know they're thinking fast and slow for example which which to us i… 1
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“they talk about it in in their work you know they're thinking fast and slow for example which which to us is a magic book”
Bill Gurley All the books that have been written on bias and all the Kahneman [inaudible] and Thinking, Fast and Slow,… 1
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“All the books that have been written on bias and all the Kahneman [inaudible] and Thinking, Fast and Slow, and all the Nobel prizes for that stuff.”
Bruce Friedrich The Nobel Laureate in Economics, Daniel Kahneman in his book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" he talks about syst… 1
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“The Nobel Laureate in Economics, Daniel Kahneman in his book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" he talks about systems one thinking and systems two thinking.”
Bryan Callen that's the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Conan oh yeah 1
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“that's the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Conan oh yeah”
David Bessis So I have to go back to the canonical example from Kenman about the ball and the bat. uh uh so when um so t… 1
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“So I have to go back to the canonical example from Kenman about the ball and the bat. uh uh so when um so the central theory of of Kenman and Ferski is that there are basically two kind of modules in the brain to uh reach conclu conclusion one is system one is uh your instinctive answer when you”
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“if I if I had to to rewrite it I would write it uh thinking fast slow and super slow and the super slow mode of thinking is that of mathematician I call that system three is the following whenever you catch your intuition red-handed being wrong at something Don't throw that away.”
David Perell I just read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel kman 1
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“I just read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel kman”
David Senra The way that these models work, thinking fast, thinking slow from Daniel Conaman. Yeah, I read that book. 1
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“The way that these models work, thinking fast, thinking slow from Daniel Conaman. Yeah, I read that book.”
David Senra Jonathan Ross, Founder of Groq 2026-07-05
Dr. Sahar Yousef Dan Conaman is quite famous for not only writing the world famous book thinking fast and slow but as a rese… 1
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“Dan Conaman is quite famous for not only writing the world famous book thinking fast and slow but as a researcher my humble opinion more famous in my world of illuminating cognitive biases”
Gary Marcus So a lot of people will have read Danny Conorman's book thinking fast and slow and there he talked about sy… 1
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“So a lot of people will have read Danny Conorman's book thinking fast and slow and there he talked about system one and system two cognition. So system one was fast and automatic reflexive.”
Iain McGilchrist because interestingly in uh thinking fast thinking slow there's a passage where dan kahneman says some thin… 1
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“because interestingly in uh thinking fast thinking slow there's a passage where dan kahneman says some things that struck me as very odd”
Jason Zweig When I was working with Danny Kahneman on thinking fast and slow, there was one chapter where I sort of fel… 1
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“When I was working with Danny Kahneman on thinking fast and slow, there was one chapter where I sort of felt at the end of the day, literally the day, the calendar day, that we had done really good work. And one of us went to sleep.”
Jim Mullane I'll tell you what is a terrible audiobook to listen to Thinking Fast and Slow that's it's a challenging re… 1
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“I'll tell you what is a terrible audiobook to listen to Thinking Fast and Slow that's it's a challenging read if you actually sit down and read it too”
Critiqued
“Thinking Fast and Slow that's it's a challenging read if you actually sit down and read it too it's challenging regardless how you consume it”
Jim Yong Kim Daniel Kahneman won his Nobel Prize on looking at different ways of thinking and questioning the assumption… 1
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“Daniel Kahneman won his Nobel Prize on looking at different ways of thinking and questioning the assumptions that economists were making in 2002. And so his work predates that by quite a bit.”
Judd Antin a lot of a lot of your listeners have probably read uh Thinking Fast and Slow system one system two right I… 1
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“a lot of a lot of your listeners have probably read uh Thinking Fast and Slow system one system two right I have it here right under my laptop actually holding up my laptop screen”
Judea Pearl So here interplay between fast thinking and long thinking to use Gimon and Gimon um title thinking fast and… 1
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“So here interplay between fast thinking and long thinking to use Gimon and Gimon um title thinking fast and slow thinking fast and thinking slow right now here it's a beautiful arena to see how not only you have two mode of thinking”
Julia Galef There is something that Daniel Kahneman wrote about in Thinking, Fast and Slow. So he gives this example of… 1
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“There is something that Daniel Kahneman wrote about in Thinking, Fast and Slow. So he gives this example of like a door-to-door salesman who gets the door slammed in his face.”
June Park or did it just read can's book thinking fast and slow 1
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“or did it just read can's book thinking fast and slow”
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“For instance, there's a famous social science theory called prospect theory. Is the model replicating that because it can replicate human behavior or did it just read Kahneman's book 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'? This fundamental issue persists in our field, which necessitates a lot of work to resolve.”
Lenny Rachitsky And the system one system two stuff is basically Kahneman's kind of I have that book up there actually behi… 1
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“And the system one system two stuff is basically Kahneman's kind of I have that book up there actually behind me. This system one just to keep it simple is just like your kind of your amygdala-limbic system making just like gut level quick decisions like snake oh no.”
Mar Hershenson there's a book that I think if you haven't read it's called thinking fast and slow it's actually I will sum… 1
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“there's a book that I think if you haven't read it's called thinking fast and slow it's actually I will summarize it in one slide there are two ways that our brain makes decisions”
Marcus du Sautoy why I call the book thinking better because I was sort of bouncing off that book of kahneman's thinking fas… 1
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“why I call the book thinking better because I was sort of bouncing off that book of kahneman's thinking fast and slow”
Matjaž Leonardis so there is this famous experiment i think it was popularized by uh daniel kahneman in his book thinking fa… 1
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“so there is this famous experiment i think it was popularized by uh daniel kahneman in his book thinking fast and slow”
Matt Killingsworth I had written this as like a subo to a subo in another paper and actually reading Michael Lewis's book abou… 1
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“I had written this as like a subo to a subo in another paper and actually reading Michael Lewis's book about Danny and Amos they were talking about how they took on existing ideas and that was an important part of their intellectual journey”
Max Tegmark If you read Kahneman with System One and System Two, it's very clear that you want to use your System Two,… 1
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“If you read Kahneman with System One and System Two, it's very clear that you want to use your System Two, your deliberative reasoning thinking, to decide your diet before you go to the supermarket rather than just impulse buying random things that come in front of you because you always shop hungry or something like that.”
Michael Munger Daniel Kahneman had a book Thinking Fast and Slow 1
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“Daniel Kahneman had a book Thinking Fast and Slow”
Noam Sobel I took advice, so I'm not that, that, uh, I'm friends with him, but that time I was communicating a bit bec… 1
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“I took advice, so I'm not that, that, uh, I'm friends with him, but that time I was communicating a bit because we were on some board with with uh Daniel Kahneman, who's’s Nobel 'Fast and Slow.'”
Patrick O'Shaughnessy It's an interesting example of, like, the inside-outside view from thinking fast and slow, where, like, the… 1
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“It's an interesting example of, like, the inside-outside view from thinking fast and slow, where, like, the inside view on both these firms, Amazon's actually a good parallel for Vanguard, is that they're invincible and can do no harm”
Rob Henderson well yeah so so I think that we we we fall prey to um so so in that the classic psychology book Thinking Fa… 1
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“well yeah so so I think that we we we fall prey to um so so in that the classic psychology book Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel conman coined this term”
Rory Sutherland And he in his book Thinking Fast and Slow, I don't know if you read that, Sean, but one of his like one of… 1
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“And he in his book Thinking Fast and Slow, I don't know if you read that, Sean, but one of his like one of the famous examples was The Economist, I think it was, or something like that.”
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Thomas picketty's book on Capital and Daniel kahneman's book thinking fast and slow and he found that the r… 1
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“Thomas picketty's book on Capital and Daniel kahneman's book thinking fast and slow and he found that the rate at which sentences were underlined dramatically decreased towards the end of the books I think there were three percent as many underlying lines at the end of thing fast and slow is at the beginning of thing fast and slow”
Shaan Puri Even in the book Thinking Fast and Slow, he even says he's like, I'm writing a book on biases, but I suffer… 1
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“Even in the book Thinking Fast and Slow, he even says he's like, I'm writing a book on biases, but I suffer from all these same things and I and I have to work on this all the time.”
Steven Johnson like thinking fellow also blank is like that it is amazing the amount of processing and and all the heurist… 1
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“like thinking fellow also blank is like that it is amazing the amount of processing and and all the heuristics we have for making short-term instinctual decisions”
Stuart Ritchie and you know it has made its way into loads of really popular books including by really reliable and respec… 1
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“and you know it has made its way into loads of really popular books including by really reliable and respected people like daniel kahneman there's loads of stuff in thinking fast and slow his his like ultra popular and really good”
Tony Fadell Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and and he and you know you know Nobel laureate amazing amazing guy 1
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“Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and and he and you know you know Nobel laureate amazing amazing guy”
Tren Griffin that's where you know it's difficult because we've got Kahneman who's an amazing guy who's for a decade stu… 1
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“that's where you know it's difficult because we've got Kahneman who's an amazing guy who's for a decade studying behavioral economics and he says flat-out he still falls for the same problems when it when it came to writing Thinking Fast and Slow he was overconfident about how long it would take to finish it”
Tristan Harris i talked to daniel kahneman who wrote the he's like the founder of behavioral economics he wrote the book t… 1
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“i talked to daniel kahneman who wrote the he's like the founder of behavioral economics he wrote the book thinking fast and slow if you know that one”
Wes Gray Kahneman's book, Think Fast and Slow, the whole system one, system two, architecture, the brain. I think th… 1
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“Kahneman's book, Think Fast and Slow, the whole system one, system two, architecture, the brain. I think that defines life in decision-making.”
Y-Lan Boureau the great late Danny Canaman had this book thinking fast and slow about how in our brain we have this way o… 1
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“the great late Danny Canaman had this book thinking fast and slow about how in our brain we have this way of taking decision that's very fast and this way that's low like slower more deliberate takes more time”
Yann LeCun last time we talked with with Danny kaneman which was an amazing discussion uh Danny is famous for you know… 1
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“last time we talked with with Danny kaneman which was an amazing discussion uh Danny is famous for you know this book uh thinking fast and slow and for this idea that uh we have basically two ways”
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“Wasati is an abbreviation for or an acronym for what you see is all there is. And what he was describing in his book thinking fast and slow is that when we have an interaction with someone...”
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“well I love the idea of doing a follow-up on this because sincerely I would love to go into all of the books that I love and encourage people to read those books but for now I will say that Daniel Conor women has had a huge influence in my life and partly because of his work but also because”
Discussed
“that lecture in Stockholm was the beginning of what led to thinking fast and slow because he was reinterpreting all the urtic and biases stuff in the lens of system one and system two which is your immediate reaction versus when you sit down and think about it”
Discussed
“I mean during the writing of thinking fast and slow which was a long gestation long gestation and he decided absolutely positively that he was quitting two dozen times”
Discussed
“He became famous for his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, but it was his decades of earlier research, much of it done with his collaborator Amos Tversky, that revolutionized not only psychology but helped create the field of behavioral economics.”
Discussed
“in the first half of the show Angela references a priming experiment that Daniel Conan described in his 2011 best-selling book Thinking Fast and Slow”
Discussed
“Right, well, my thinking on this has been guided by a distinction drawn by Kahneman and Tversky between two types of thinking: one being an inside approach and the other being an outside approach. The inside approach involves really focusing on the case at hand and trying to work out the details of that unique case.”
Discussed
“You may be familiar with system 1 and system two from the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman”
Discussed
“but that's why that's think and thinking that's why you got to go to therapy and and have professionals just walk you through like hey hey let's help you see yourself the world and how you fit into it more clearly”
Discussed
“Some of your listeners might be familiar with Daniel Kahneman best-selling book thinking faster slow”
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“so I think I purchased the book um Thinking Fast and Slow by he's a psychologist named Daniel Condon I think or can that I can't pronounce it it was really I brought that book with me I had to like that was one of the toughest decisions I had coming to Ecuador”

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“In 2011 he published a popular book called Thinking Fast and Slow.”
Passing
“and the common sense uh to operate right like as a human I have that book behind me yeah I love that book um but uh but slow thinking is like it's just a different mode of planning and executing”
Passing
“and the Nobel La Daniel Conan who wrote Thinking Fast and Slow was there and someone asked”
Passing
“Kahneman was a phenomenally influential psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics, wrote the best-selling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, and left behind an army of collaborators, mentees, and admirers.”
Passing
“He is a behavioral scientist at Yale who collaborated with Danny conoman on several projects and is cited throughout Conan's book Thinking Fast and Slow conman saw Frederick as a protege and they had a a close relationship”
Passing
“Our email is [email protected]. Coming up next time on the show, Daniel Kahneman is perhaps best known as the author of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow,' but he also helped revolutionize the fields of both psychology and economics, and his influence has been enormous.”
Passing
“One is Danny Kahneman. Most people listening will have read his work and thinking fast and slow and heard the name a lot.”
Passing
“he became famous for his 2011 book thinking fast and slow but it was his Decades of earlier research”
Passing
“I recently came upon the No Stupid Questions podcast and would love to hear your thoughts on the importance of semantics, especially in relation to the idea of priming as written about in the great Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.”
Passing
“it's one of Danny Conan's inventions but has gotten less attention than like thinking fast and slow and cognitive biases and so forth”
Passing
“I'm hoping his editor is kind of like thinking fast and slow yeah”
Passing
“Having spent time around Danny Kahneman, a Nobel Laureate in behavioral economics, I once asked him how he could spend his life studying decision-making while being terrible at it.”
Passing
“his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow was a blockbuster bestseller”
Passing
“There are the scholars who deal with risk and I think, you know, How We Think, Daniel Kahneman, people like that who've done a lot of thinking about how the human mind thinks.”
Passing
“And by the way, people read Thinking, Fast and Slow and they watch a TED Talk, and I think that we are actually newly aware of these evolutionarily explicable quirks of human reasoning.”
Passing
“This ties in with the way that the brain works as well Anybody that's read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman knows this You've got the instinctive response which is you system-1 And then you've got the slower more considered response which is number two”
Passing
“so I would read a lot of pop psychology books from back in the day wisdom of crowds Thinking Fast and Slow all those books”
Passing
“so I would read a lot of pop psychology books from back in the day wisdom of crowds Thinking Fast and Slow all those books are we now you know”
Passing
“Tommy you got a new pod save the world and Dan you got a book that will save democracy”
Passing
“he's the author of the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow that summarizes in an accessible way his research of several decades”
Passing
“so Daniel um Conan off author of thinking uh fast and slow”
Passing
“Conan himself had a book a few years ago called Thinking Fast and Slow which was on our 10 best books of the year list that year — which I'm also sort of Dipping into”
Passing
“And there are books, you know, Thaler has published a book, Misbehaving on It. Kahneman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow, really opened a lot of eyes around the world.”
Passing
“The best description I've ever heard of this comes from Danny Kahneman, the Nobel-winning psychologist and author of Thinking Fast and Slow.”

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