One of the greatest pitfalls that we face these days is a " rush to judgment".. That's a phrase made (in)famous during the "OJ" Simpson trial by his attorney Johnnie Cochran. Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel prize in 2002 for his research in behavioral economics, specifically judgment and decision-making. His best selling book "Thinking Fast and Slow" exposes the faults and biases of our "fast thinking"....(our rush to judgment)....the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, overconfidence in corporate strategies, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation! Each of these decisions can be understood only by knowing how the two systems of "fast thinking" and "slow thinking" work together to shape our judgments and decisions. Both have benefits: like "fast thinking" keeps you safe in emergencies where you mus...
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