📚 2 Books mentioned in "173. How Important Is Your Choice of Words? | No Stupid Questions" of No Stupid Questions

I once gave a talk on grit for my book tour, and I was very nervous because I had never really given a book tour talk. I was like, 'What the hell is that?'

Angela Duckworth recounts her experience of giving a talk on 'grit' during her book tour, expressing her nervousness and confusion about the concept of a book tour talk.

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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.

A listener named Josiah brings up Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" while asking the hosts about semantics and the concept of priming. He is curious to hear their thoughts on the subject.

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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.

During the discussion, host Angela mentions that Daniel Kahneman wrote the acclaimed book "Thinking, Fast and Slow," highlighting his impact on psychology and the study of decision-making.

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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.

In the podcast, the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is discussed in relation to how readers interpreted its insights on priming, as well as the controversy that followed its publication regarding the research it presented.

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