From the course: Leading in Uncertain Times
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Learn how to think about thinking
From the course: Leading in Uncertain Times
Learn how to think about thinking
- From 1971 to 1979 psychologists Kahneman and Tversky published mind-blowing studies that busted our assumptions about judgment and decision-making. This field, behavioral economics, revealed that how we think isn't as rational as we thought. Kahneman, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, described two systems that drive the way we think, system one and system two. System one is fast, automatic, efficient, and often unconscious. It's also prone to misleading biases and judgment errors. Your intuition, yup, system one thinking. For example, when you see my face as angry, when you see this one plus one and a number comes to mind, or when you have an immediate bad feeling about the proposal Leslie just made, that's system one thinking. System two is slow, effortful, and controlled. When you see 27 times 19, you're using system two thinking to come up with 513. When you search your memory, what's that surprising sound?…
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