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Publisher's Summary
An authoritative and confident assessment of our capacity for not one, but two distinct thought processes, this audiobook outlines in detail the ways we can utilise that capacity to its maximum potential.
Shortlisted for: International Author of the Year – Specsavers National Book Awards 2012
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman's pioneering work that tackles questions of intuition and rationality. Read by the actor Patrick Egan.
Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology challenging the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of the world's most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound impact on many fields - including business, medicine, and politics - but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research in one book.
In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour. The importance of properly framing risks, the effects of cognitive biases on how we view others, the dangers of prediction, the right ways to develop skills, the pros and cons of fear and optimism, the difference between our experience and memory of events, the real components of happiness-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.
Drawing on a lifetime's experimental experience, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our professional and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you take decisions and experience the world.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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- arun
- 09-12-18
difficult to hear it on audible
audible should implement a book synchronizer. which shows the relevant pdf page when narrating about it
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- NatureLover
- 19-12-18
Better read the book
There are lot of reference pictures in the book which makes it hard to visualize through audio book. I didnt enjoy the book as it's too technical and hard to listen. I would rather read the book.
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- Pramod
- 21-02-19
Errors by Audio book Publisher
I happened to get this book from a colleague while I was listening to the audiobook. For a while I was listening to the audiobook while I was looking at the text in the book. I found an error where the narrator reads a word exactly opposite to what was written in the book. I went back 5 times to check if I spotted it wrong. But I was right.
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- Devender Mishra
- 18-12-18
Good book
I have learnt many things like idiocratic effect, anchoring. It is like an encyclopaedia of psychology for beginners. It has result of 20 years research. Author is a noble Laurette.
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- 28-12-18
Good examples but need more visuals
This book delivered what was expected. Sometimes the topic was out of context but gave overall perspective of behavioural patterns of investors. Chapters were numbered not named. Reference to charts in the book were not available. Emphasis on System 1 and System 2 could have been more during the early chapters.
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- Optamin Fidélis
- 03-04-19
A Life-Changing Book!
It has really CHANGED my worldview of judgment, decision making and many more phenomena relating to the 'cognitive mine-field.' Now, I'm a curator of both System 1 & System 2.
The narration, too, is terrific!
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- Vinod
- 24-03-19
Best to understand the process of decision making!
loved it ! Had to repeat in many instances but was great process of learning!
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- Nilesh U.
- 01-03-19
Eye opener for trusting intutuon and rationality
For everyone the learnings from this book can act as an alarm which rings when decisions are to be made in any domain of life. Be it trusting the critics & experts or choosing holidays. Daniel had done a remarkable job in conveing the most complex aspects of dicision making in syatametic manner. Must read for all.
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- ROHIT BHATIA
- 31-01-19
R Bhatia
excellent book and concepts on thinking fast and slow. Very easy to understand narrative with examples. exhaustively covered and explained . a must read for everyone wanting to understand how we behave in different situations .
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- Sundar C
- 19-01-19
A Good analysis in thinking patterns
The topics in the book are hard to digest by listening only once, Had to rewind and repeat in-between to get a hold of concepts. Ordered a hard copy book too for quick referencing topics. This book throws light on how our brains function and decide on various circumstances and how lazy our logical thinking system is and how quickly we choose to go by intuitive thinking whenever possible. Only half of the topics remain in mind ... I guess I will need 2 or 3 more listening and reading to get hold of concepts... Overall a nice read ...
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- Alex
- 26-02-12
read this book (not for listenings)
What did you love best about Thinking, Fast and Slow?
Audio books are meant to be listened. In your car, while jogging, biking (that's what I do). This book constantly requires you to look at figures in the addendum, worse, some parts go on forever with just numbers, like 99% - value1, 98%, value2, 97% value3. Probably a better read than a listen
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- peter krajnak
- 11-07-15
I'm happy that I'm finished.
I'm happy that I read that. I missed some parts sleeping on tube, sometimes didn't pay attention at all, but overall, it was good experience.
It would be great if audible can show related pictures on screen, e.g. when there is a math problem, or a chart to be shown.
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- fredmonster
- 22-12-12
Comprehensively brilliant
The most useful explanation of our problems processing decisions in a rational way. Not a self help book but a text allowing insight and reflection on an individual and organisational basis. Unifies or compliments many of the other books I have read; Dawkins, Haidt, Pinker, Harris, Dennet and Robert Wright. Essential to download PDF file and stop the car if referring to it.
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- Zackr
- 24-12-17
Single most important book of my life.
When I started reading this book a few months back, I wasn't able to comprehend much of it. I then bought it's physical book and read it with Audible narration. Was a bit hard to still comprehend it in the start but my brain soon caught up and I was reading at full speed with great comprehension. It's not that the book was hard, it's that my mindset was on a lower level, had to jump-up my mind's game to the level of this book to understand it and I must say, it's one book that changed my perspective about so many things that I used to do wrong. I know where my brain is making intuitive faults now and how to come over them.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-04-17
Fascinating and instructive
I found myself implementing useful learnings from the book, one example being to do the most fun thing at the end of any event or holiday as it provides the strongest associative memory of that experience.
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- Andrew
- 13-08-12
An excellent and thorough review of the subject
This is a fascinating book. This was my first foray into this subject and it had me looking for more books in the same vein. It is content heavy but well written and well narrated. I've just finished listening to it for a second time - what greater recommendation can I give?
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- Anonymous User
- 26-05-18
great book
One of the best books I've ever read/listened to. Heuristics and logical biases of our everyday life are explained and analyzed.
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- Pavan Raheja
- 09-09-17
Best book on Human behavior.
Any body looking for self growth, this book is an eye opener. Daniel Kanheman is an master in Human psychology.
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- Pradeep Anand
- 13-01-17
good book and very well read
A fantastic book well written and narrated. Must read to know how we think and act.
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- Doug
- 16-11-16
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Outstanding book. A must read for everyone in the world. We all make decisions so you will benefit from the information delivered in this book.
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- The Coypu
- 21-07-14
Didn't work as an audiobook
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I would recommend the paper version, but not the audiobook. I found there were too many references to visual things, which would have been easier to look at. Also, it's impossible to interrupt the book as there aren't any chapters on the audiobook (the Audible app crashes all the time, so no point in using that) It requires a lot of attention to follow...if you're a visual person, I would recommend the book.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator isn't very engaging. He has a nice voice, but isn't very dynamic.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Carrie
- Tideswell, UK
- 24-07-13
Interesting topic - but audiobook wrong format
Any additional comments?
This is a fascinating book - outlining key research areas in the psychology of decision making. It also does a very good job explaining clearly the fundamentals of statistics in research - I wish it had been available when I was doing my psychology degree! BUT - it is a difficult book to digest in audiobook format. There are lots of references to the PDFs (difficult to refer to when driving!) and there are a lot of "lists" which you have to hold in your head whilst the theory is explained. It would be much easier to digest in traditional paper format.
73 of 77 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Judy Corstjens
- London
- 23-07-12
Brilliant. DK is a genuine mind reader!
Who am I to say this noble laureate is brilliant, but I'll chuck in my two pennyworth anyway. Kahneman shows you how you think and how easy it is to be deluded and misled by the way your brain just happens to work. Some of the book is quite hard work, and sometimes it is a bit slow reading (laboured points), but the content is fascinating and also important. It will probably change how you think, view and live your life, which is quite something for a mere book.
37 of 39 people found this review helpful
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- Daniel Magliola
- 29-01-15
Excellent book, but not a great audiobook.
The contents of this book are extremely good, but unfortunately it has too many figures, and too many thought experiments that involve juggling information for the audio format to be effective.
17 of 18 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- R
- Bishops Stortford, United Kingdom
- 19-07-12
How we think
An excellent book, very well read. The source document for many other snippety books on similar subjects, this book delves a bit deeper and gives a more complete account of how we think, how we unconsciously apply biases and the impact of luck on performance. An ear-opener in many ways from a Nobel prizewinner with decades of examples to give and some nice personal stories. Can't recommend highly enough.
15 of 16 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- clive
- 18-01-12
Fascinating, but be prepared to concentrate
If you enjoyed works on behavourial economics such as 'Nudge' then you should listen to this. Daniel Kahneman is the godfather of the discipline and you get a nobel laureate giving you a comprehensive and fairly user friendly account of his pioneering work in this fascinating area. I only gave it four stars because i found it hard to follow when listening to it. He references PDFs which i think come with the download but i didn't have in front of me when walking the dog, and I ended up having to rewind to try and understand the bits i didn't understand, mostly giving up and going with the flow (ah, system one). I'll probably end up buying the book to go back over it, but i'm glad i downloaded it as otherwise i would never have read it. Recommended but be prepared to concentrate if you want to really understand it.
38 of 43 people found this review helpful
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- F. I. Nance
- London
- 28-06-14
Sensational: you'll understand how your mind works
What made the experience of listening to Thinking, Fast and Slow the most enjoyable?
The surprise, when you again and again, stumble over your own behaviour being described in the book. How you use assumptions, shortcuts and reduction of information to make everyday decisions, and Kahneman even exposes it to you with a quick math question regarding a baseball and a bat...
What was one of the most memorable moments of Thinking, Fast and Slow?
...when I was proud to have no glitches in some questions before and then stubbled over a question with animals and an ark...
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
This book wasn't easy to stop listening...
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- Cat
- Hatfield, United Kingdom
- 23-12-12
Excellence surpassed
It is not often I would describe a book as 'priceless' but Thinking, Fast and Slow definotely warrants such praise, at least from this corner of the World.
The narration was excellent - I often forgot I wasn't actually listening to Daniel Kahneman (the author) personally as the delivery was faultless.
The subject matter however was exemplary! I have always had a healthy interest in both my own decision making process and needed to understand it, from a business perspective, in others.
Often however, such learning can be quite dry but not in this instance.
The exercises provided - many instantly available to grasp by just listening, some needing you to access accompanying documents - conveyed the point being made exquisitely.
I'm so thrilled with this book that it has beasily become my No.1 recommendation to like-minded friends and family.
Grab it, enjoy it ... and know yourself, oh so much better!
16 of 19 people found this review helpful
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- Sam
- 06-07-18
Enlightening is Not the Word
If you have ever wondered just how much your animal brain is in charge - read this book.
The level of self-awareness I gained from having the blindingly obvious (and the quite often counter-intuitive) made clear in such a wonderful fashion, cannot be measured, needless to say it was significant.
This is one of those rare books where disciplines collide leading to a truly eye opening look at ourselves and our motivations, beliefs and assumptions.
Don't miss the chance to be a better person!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- Brett
- 01-04-16
Just can't get into it
I have tried and tried to get into this book but find myself becoming bored and lost after 15 minutes. The narrative is a little flat and doesn't keep me in a state of interest and neither does the book. It all came across old fashioned and probably over complicated for the mainstream. If you're into psychology you may be better equipped and more interested in this. If you're like me - no real experience in psychology, but interested to find out more and delve into the human psych, then I would recommend looking at other books.
9 of 13 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Diego
- 04-05-16
Hard to listen but good content so far.
This has been the hardest book to listen to, I listened to almost a dozen titles and unfortunately I haven't finished this book yet. The content is great, I just don't believe it translates well as an audiobook and I wish I knew that before I bought it. That's why I'm leaving a review so it hopefully helps other people make their decision. Also there are a lot of references to picture and diagrams, not great if you are driving or out and about. In regards to content, it's very technical, almost draining, but I like it
39 of 40 people found this review helpful
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- Sean Beckman
- 14-03-16
Critical Analysis of our Hidden Selves
Daniel Kahneman does an excellent job delivering an analysis of human intuition and reasoning by example and thought experiment. Pointing out the flaws within the readers own mind proves effective in breaking down the false assumption that we are rational and the decisions we make aren't rooted in benign or even unrelated factors.
I find it will take probably another two listens to even remember half the jargon set up in this book. Normally I would have disdain for jargon but this book perfectly points out the advantage of it within its study of expert intuitions. As much as jargon tends to obfuscate what it describes for outsiders, it's vital for an expert's system 1 to use to make rapid and accurate judgements.
Ultimately this book is both engaging and interesting, the delivery is excellent and not monotone and is effective in reflecting both the quality of the written words and the author's personality coming through the voice actors performance.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Monica
- 29-11-17
Boring
I usually enjoy this stuff so maybe I’ve hit my limit. I found this tedious.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
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- Alex
- 27-05-15
Hard going at times but essential reading.
This book will change how you see the world. You will be more aware of external and internal manipulations and misconceptions. There is a price though. The later half of the book can be hard going and the narrator's limited dynamic range becomes a challenge to listen to attentively. I'd suggest listening to the first 3hrs and then breaking up the rest into smaller chunks (Splice with something more narrative), But do listen. This is an important book.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- THOMAS
- 27-05-15
Excellent portrayal of a geniuses life work
Although it is fairly heady and requires a lot of attention, understanding the biases and metal processing concepts in this book will surely help me to make better and more decisions in life. Certainly worth the effort
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 11-12-17
Interesting first half
First half dives into the details of thinking fast and slow. Second half becomes a thesis of different applications. Imo shouldve ended on the first half.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Michael Goulding
- 22-12-15
Ok, labours far too long though.
I lasted around 2/3s of the book, the start is good but it gets way to science thesis for me.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 08-07-18
The best book I have ever listened/read
I recommend everyone who does any analysis as part of their job to listen to this book. Even the analysis we do as part of daily life falls into the discussions of this book. This book showed me how foolish were some opinions I had about different things in the past. It shows you the systematic flaws we have in our decision making and biases we have about things. It's a must read for anyone who wants to understand the process of thinking. I enjoyed it a lot, even though it was the longest book I have listened so far.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 18-05-18
great content
loved it but I struggled to read it because of all the statistics in it. great content....
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 07-03-18
Interesting psychological observations
Interesting listen, though slightly boring at times. It felt as if it was constantly repeating itself and often the conclusion was lost in the endless explaining of simple concepts. I'm listening generally while at work or in commute, but I struggled to find times where I genuinely wanted to finish this.
Not the kind of book you'll finish in one attempt or through a week, purely because of the content and structure being found in individual segments that didn't really tend to build up into anything.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful