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Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman
Narrated by: Patrick Egan
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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.

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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.

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"There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman, a winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, distils a lifetime of research into an encyclopedic coverage of both the surprising miracles and the equally surprising mistakes of our conscious and unconscious thinking. He achieves an even greater miracle by weaving his insights into an engaging narrative that is compulsively readable from beginning to end. My main problem in doing this review was preventing family members and friends from stealing my copy of the book to read it for themselves... this is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read." (William Easterly, Financial Times)
"Absorbing, intriguing...By making us aware of our minds' tricks, Kahneman hopes to inspire individuals and organisations to identify strategies to outwit them" (Jenni Russell, Sunday Times)
"Profound ... As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch, Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be." ( The Economist)

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Comprehensive but a bit academic

Thorough research which could be better summarised through removal of unnecessary academic background information. Nevertheless I recommend this book.

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The limits of human capacity

This book takes you deep down into an understanding of how decisions are made. It challenge our understanding of every single fact that we accept as truth.

It should be a part of our education!

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exceptionally thought provoking

While the audiobook is over 20hrs long, I see myself listening to it in its entirety again and again. So many thoughts provoked that I can carry and practically apply in both business and everyday life. I am recommending this to everyone I speak to.

Clean narration and really easy to following for 90% of the book, with only a few parts (around the significance of statistics) I needed to slow down and listen to twice to fully comprehend. Given the breadth of this book and amount of studies it references, I found this clarity impressive.

Nearly needed to buy an entire new journal just to jot down the great ideas from this book. Can't wait until all my friends listen and we can discuss!
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Funny, interesting and a little scary

The clear narrator outlines some of the most useful concepts and experimental developments imaginable. For anyone who has had arguments over chores to those who care about impactful social policies, this book is a gift. Thank you.

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A little long but very interesting.

I may be tired of the genre as I've read a lot in this space over the years, but I did find this a little hard to finish.
Having said that, it was very interesting and a must read for better understanding yourself and others. Goes hand in hand with Nudge.

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Too much information to be captured by audiobook

I generally have been preferring books that tell a story and have actionable points, ways that you can use the knowledge or prevent it from being used against you. Maybe new techniques or a mindset change when making decisions. This instead felt more like it was just reading out studies and had no relevance to the reader.

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Long but worth it

A fascinating book about the way we think and the errors we make. Everyone should read it and learn more about human thinking.

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Great performance and an interesting book.

A succinct book on how humans make decisions and why we are not good intuitive statisticians.

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Interesting but a little boring

The content especially in the first half was incredibly interesting however the Narrator was unfortunately not the easiest to listen to for 20+ hours, especially in the statistic heavy second half

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great concepts but a bit of a grind

while there was good concepts, narration was dry and somewhat monotone which let it down

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