Your Thinking May Be Misleading You

Krystal Tippett interviews Nobel laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahnemann, author of 'Thinking, Fast & Slow'.

Complete rationality is a pipedream — our minds love simplification and shortcuts — there are 2 types of thinking — the reasons we prosecute for our beliefs are not the real reasons for their origin — we are overconfident in the face of great uncertainty — the best we can hope for is impartial understanding — memories are constructed (not accurate or even factual) — it is important to distinguish between bias and a mistake — there is no fix, only minor tweaks.

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