Thinking Fast and Slow

Thinking Fast and Slow is a book by Daniel Kahneman.  Kahneman is an Israeli American psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for his work on judgement and decision-making.  The book is a fascinating tour of our own mind, how we think slowly and delibrately, and how we make fast decisions, and the faults and biases of both ways of thinking.  The TED talk introduction credits him as being "widely regarded as the world's most influential living psychologist.."

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.” (Daniel Kahneman)

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•Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory TED talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.htmhttp://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.htmll
•YouTube TIME 10 Questions for Noel Laureate Daniel Kahneman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zSc2lYl60http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zSc2lYl60
•Video with Charlie Rose on his book, Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12185http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12185
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