Book Review: Thinking fast and slow, by Daniel Kahneman
This is the first book on psychology that I have read and I must say it is some heavy reading - it took my almost 5 months to finish it!! Its an amazingly well written book, quite simple in its language but just because the content is so much and so deep, it takes a longer time to mull over it and finish it! Its written by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel prize winner, and his works cover both economics as well as psychology. The overall foundation of the book is that the human mind is not always rational. There are biases which affect how it works and hence its important to be aware of its failings. The book is split into 5 sections covering a lot of these tendencies, each section then split into small chapters of 10 pages. Each chapter in turn covers a small part of how our brain functions, detailing it with multiple examples and experiments from daily life which ring true and bring the theory to life for an amateur reader. The book is very very interesting, especially all the examples...