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alissamk's review against another edition
5.0
This book took me a while to get through but it was really fascinating! I especially liked the section about experiences, memories and how we perceive them. I think the point of this book isn’t to change how we think (that probably isn’t possible) but after reading this I’m certainly going to... think about how I think more than I have before. It really put some things into perspective for me. Definitely recommend if you’re interested in how our brains work.
nikolai_laba's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
2.5
This book would be better as a long form article or cliff notes. Dragged on and felt like there was always twice as many examples as needed. Could have used more time spent on real world application instead of experiment results. Overall 2.5 because the research and ideas were good just a really difficult slog to get through them.
freshetables's review against another edition
4.0
3.82/5.00 - [Good]
A detailed read with some very strong information on cognitive bias. Enjoyable enough but incredibly repetitive at times.
A detailed read with some very strong information on cognitive bias. Enjoyable enough but incredibly repetitive at times.
jmrprice's review against another edition
2.0
Interesting premise, but a very long, long, long read... felt the slog was never going to end...
mrbrownsays's review against another edition
3.0
I have studied this and therefore none of it was as counterintuitive as it thought it was. Some nice exemplars and so on. But if I am honest I wanted something a bit more rigorous. Lots of appeal to emotion and anecdote which made for a fun read but not a convincing argument. Not that I am wholly opposed to the arguments made but a bit more aware of the middle ground (as I am sure Mr Kahneman is as well).
I might have read this before it was certainly recommended to me in 2012 by a then colleague and I can see why it was recommended to me then. But I think I would have had similar opinions then too (maybe I did, lots of it was familiar but then I have read a lot of Kahnemans academic work - is this a sign of getting old?).
I might have read this before it was certainly recommended to me in 2012 by a then colleague and I can see why it was recommended to me then. But I think I would have had similar opinions then too (maybe I did, lots of it was familiar but then I have read a lot of Kahnemans academic work - is this a sign of getting old?).