As we’ve been learning over the last several months, an awareness of the mental shortcuts we tend to take can help us control our behavior to our advantage. Here is a quick look at two more heuristics from Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. THE LAW OF SMALL NUMBERS Our brains have a difficult…
In another installment exploring Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, we’ll look at two more heuristics (mental shortcuts) that influence our thinking and behavior. CONFIDENCE OVER DOUBT Emotion suppresses ambiguity and doubt by constructing coherent stories from mere scraps of data. Logic is our inner skeptic, weighing those stories, doubting them, and suspending judgment.…
Over the last few months, we have been examining Nobel Prize winning author, Daniel Kahneman’s book about human biases called Thinking, Fast and Slow. In it, he outlines heuristics (mental shortcuts) that influence our thinking and behavior. We’ll take a closer look at 3 more heuristics today. JUDGMENT Our emotion relies on its intuition; the…