Review of " Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman

This is one intriguing tale of how two thinking processes of human mind shape every decision we make from the everyday ones, such as, which peanut butter to buy to somewhat more significant ones like which treatment to choose for a patient or which saving plan to enter into. The author defines and explores two ways of thinking: fast and slow, where the first process is intuition-driven and the later is deliberate and logic-induced. But there is no definite border beyond which the territory of only one system lies and inside of which lies the another one's. Hence the interplay and influences between the systems become dramatic and this is what the book delineated with great deliberation and enthusiasm. Lots of relatable and familiar situations are explored and dissected which give life to the book and make it non-tedious.

"Although system 2 believes itself to be where the action is", the automatic system 1, the intuition-driven one, "is the hero of the book". Because system 2's conscious reasoning takes input from the system 1 where the impressions, feelings have already been created. So the slow thinking is ought to be biased since the fast thinking has its own likings and dislikings, some come with us when we are born and some are cultivated and sculpted by experience.

Finally, the author talks about how we can get rid of some biases that we tend to overlook, not because we are nonchalant to those but because we do not identify with them with our limited rationality and inherent indolence of system 2 to make careful consideration and calculation.

Lastly, after reading the book, I came to conclude that we have at least two systems guiding our thoughts, not only two.