The reviewer found Daniel Kahneman's 'Thinking Fast and Slow' to be a brilliant and excellent book, despite initial difficulties in connecting with the content. The book's insights into human judgment and decision-making processes are fascinating and have a significant impact on the reviewer's professional life.
The reviewer initially struggled to engage with Daniel Kahneman's 'Thinking Fast and Slow' due to the abstract nature of the psychological investigations presented. However, as they delved deeper into the book, they found Kahneman's insights into human judgment and decision-making to be fascinating and highly relevant to their professional life as a scientist. The book's exploration of cognitive biases, such as the halo effect and hindsight bias, provided the reviewer with a new vocabulary for thinking and understanding their own decision-making processes. Despite the book's challenging nature, the reviewer ultimately found it to be an excellent and compelling read, with Kahneman's self-deprecating honesty and gift for aphorism adding to its appeal. The book's insights have not yet changed the way the reviewer thinks, but they have certainly changed the way they think about how they think.
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The effect is mesmerising.
Kahneman's gentle but insistent wisdom, and the widening reach of the situations in which human judgements were found to be suspect, eventually overcame my reservations.
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