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Nobel Prize-winning Economic Scientist Daniel Kahneman has collated all of his ground-breaking research into one essential best-selling audiobook Thinking, Fast and Slow, which has been narrated by Patrick Egan. Your entire way of thinking and decision-making will be defied after reading this book. From the way in which you form your ideas to the reasons how and why these ideas came to you in the first place. Learn more about yourself and others as you are enlightened with Kahneman’s research. Available now from Audible.
Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Daniel Kahneman's pioneering work that tackles questions of intuition and rationality, read by Patrick Egan.
In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a ground-breaking 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 judgements 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.
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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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- 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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- 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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- Nrj
- 17-06-19
return money
the boom was incomplete. it makes a lot of reference to diagrams and graphs which are not accessible via this app. the learning is left incomplete. I request you to return my money. :/
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- Anjali
- 29-02-20
Very academic and research based
I started reading assuming that it would help structure my thinking and help get me focussed and perhaps give tips on how to use my left and right brain for the best benefits. I struggle to complete it ... it is more of a narration of the journey of arriving at the theories behind the nobel prize . could not find any takeaways even half way into the book ...
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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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- Yuvraj goel
- 19-04-20
where the hell are the images🤷.
in many parts of the book it says look at the image , but there are no images.
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- Bharat Daga
- 03-11-19
Audible needs ensure that downloads are worthwile
the book. kept referring to a PDF which is not available and that is not right
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- Dinesh Rathi
- 10-10-19
Too long reading for too little content
I was struggling to finish this audible book . not well designed for audible app ..too many diagrams you can't see or access with this book 20 hrs of looong reading ....only satisfaction i have that i could finished it for searching some valuable content ...but ..
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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
- 12-07-20
Repetitive, well studied, but repetitive
A very hard listen - very repetitive. But, a great book on choices, thinking, biases and the like.
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- Adi
- 16-06-20
Life changing
Excellent book. Always puts me to sleep at night when I can't sleep. If the contents alone would not do it I think the narrator goes an extra mile to make the wake to asleep time quick.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-05-20
Read this 3 times
This book will change your thinking, your relationships and the trajectory of your life. 60 years of wisdom condensed.
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- Dennis
- 14-05-20
At times monotonous, but still thought provoking
Thought provoking, with real life applications that you can put to test on your own. The narrator was monotonous at times .
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- Carrie
- 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.
108 people found this helpful
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- Judy Corstjens
- 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.
41 people found this helpful
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- F. I. Nance
- 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...
7 people found this 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.
25 people found this helpful
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- R
- 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.
16 people found this helpful
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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.
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- 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.
41 people found this helpful
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- Cat
- 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 people found this helpful
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- A.
- 20-12-19
Recommended book, awful audiobook
I have been recommended this book by a number of colleagues but I have found the audiobook to very difficult to follow and at times incomprehensible. The reader sounds like a computer, emphasising random words in sentences, which confuses a text which I had already found difficult to follow. I would not recommend this audiobook - hopefully the actual text is easier to follow and worthy of all the recommendations.
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- Rob
- 05-03-14
Difficult but Insightful
Would you listen to Thinking, Fast and Slow again? Why?
I will definitely listen to this again because I found some parts difficult to understand and I believe a second listen would help me get to grips with them.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The 'econs' because some people I know would perceive themselves as entirely logical beings and it helps highlight the fact that realistically our brains struggle to work in that way.
What about Patrick Egan’s performance did you like?
His voice is well suited to giving lectures because it sounds intelligent and coherent.
I disagree with other reviews that criticise his voice as boring because I think it is more the difficult aspects of the book that make it appear boring.
One day when I'm a Granddad and telling stories to my grand-children, I would like a voice like Patrick Egan's.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
There were some bits that were very interesting and left me thirsty for more information but equally there were other bits that were hard to digest and I felt like I needed a break, if anything just to analyse the information in my own head and let it sink in.
Any additional comments?
Although I think the content is good, I think it has been miss-sold as an audio book because for me the statistical problems are hard to digest if they are being spoken to you in real time, whereas in a paper book you can pause on a problem and let your brain comprehend it which is how I believe this book was designed.
There were also a lot of references to the PDF, which in a paper book would just be illustrations. It defies the point of an audio book if you have to read a PDF!
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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
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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.
16 people found this helpful
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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.
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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.
13 people found this 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.
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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
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- Pedro Miguel Gonzalez Delgado
- 18-05-18
great content
loved it but I struggled to read it because of all the statistics in it. great content....
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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.
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- Melchor
- 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.
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- 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.
5 people found this helpful