Thread by @Wise1Philosophy

Thinking Fast and Slow is about the two systems in your brain that are constantly fighting over control of your behaviour and actions.

10 mind blowing quotes from the ground breaking and best selling book on psychology:

1. Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

2. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

3. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

4. The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

5. If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

6. The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

7. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

8. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

9. We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

10. The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?

Please take time to read or listen to this incredible book on the two systems in our brain.

Have a great life ❤️