![]() ![]() When faced with a hard question such as, “Should I hire this person?” we convert it to an easier question: “Do I like this person?“ (System 1 is good at predicting likeability.) The suggested answer pops up, we endorse it, and believe it. “If you don’t like Obama’s politics, you think he has big ears.” System 1 is blind to statistics and focuses on the particular rather than the general: “People are more afraid of dying in a terrorist incident than they are of dying.” “The world in System 1 is a lot simpler than the real world,” Kahneman said, because it craves coherence and builds simplistic stories. Research has shown that when you are tired it is much harder to perform a task such as keeping seven digits in mind while solving a mental puzzle, and you are more impulsive (I’ll have some chocolate cake!). System 2 is effortful The self-control it requires can be depleted by fatigue. ![]() “Fast thinking,” he said, “is something that happens to you. System 2 processes are self-aware, but they are lazy and would prefer to defer to the quick convenience of System 1. Conclusions come to you without any awareness of how they were arrived at. System 1 works fast (hence its value) but it is unaware of its own process. System 1 operates on the illusory principle: What you see is all there is. Before a packed house, Kahneman began with the distinction between what he calls mental “System 1”-fast thinking, intuition-and “System 2”-slow thinking, careful consideration and calculation. ![]()
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