I suspect that it is because the book is, with the exception of the author and various mentioned colleagues, without characters. Sometimes I even found it draining, in a way that I never felt with the likes of say, Outliers. It has actually taken me quite a long time to read the whole book. The data is better, the conclusions more plausible and the research more important…but the book is less compelling. More studies are cited in greater detail in Thinking Fast and Slow, the academic muscle pulses more visibly beneath the surface. The book requires more concentration than typical Levitt/Gladwell style non-fiction, though it’s still in the same realm of academic-wants-to-write-a-bestseller. This really feels like a very wise man trying to cram a lifetime of lessons into one book…and by and large succeeding! Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman is the author, and his intelligence and experience is evident both from the breadth of academic studies cited and the authority with which he applies the evidence to a range of intriguing problems. As such, it is also a guide to identifying those areas and times when you are likely to make poor decisions. Thinking, Fast and Slow is, above all, about how frequently we make poor decisions without even realizing it. Menu Book Summary: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 04 February 2014 on Book Summaries EVALUATION
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