Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Thinking, Fast and Slow |
| author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN-10 | 0-141-03357-6 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-141-03357-0 |
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| date | 2021-Oct-20 |
There are a lot of books out there which endlessly repeat themselves from beginning to end saying "Do A and you will become rich." "Do B and your memory will improve tenfold." This is not one of those cheap, boaring and terribly overconfident texts!
Daniel Kahneman is not telling the reader what to do, he rather explains what is going on in our mind when we see things, when we hear things, when we are presented with different options, when things are worded one way or another. His insight is based on his own research and that of many other scholars. There are many samples of how such research is conducted, what kind of questions are being asked and how they are worded. This gives the reader the opportunity to formulate his or her own answer before reading on. Kahneman then explains why most people answer in a certain way and where our mind plays tricks on us.
Very interesting and an eye-opener of how we sometimes are being manipulated by the questions themselves.
