When I did resources collection about ‘intuition’, many articles and videos mentioned this book, without doubt to pick up this fascinating book for a quick reading, which bring to me a wonderful journey today, and maybe all the days followed
This book directly give the answer about question ‘intuition and logic which is better?’:
In the picture that emerges from recent research, the intuitive System 1 is more influential than your experience tells you, and it is the secret author of many of the choices and judgments you make. Most of this book is about the workings of System 1 and the mutual influences between it and System 2.
And ‘why?’:
Part 2 updates the study of judgment heuristics and explores a major puzzle: Why is it so difficult for us to think statistically? We we think metaphorically, we think causally, but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do.
A video introduce this book:
Author talk about this book at ‘Talks at Google’:
Author Daniel Kahneman explain why he entered the field of psychology:
It must have been late 1941 or early 1942. Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater inside out to walk the few blocks home. As I was walking down an empty street, I saw a German soldier approaching. He was wearing the black uniform that I had been told to fear more than others — the one worn by specially recruited SS soldiers. As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed that he was looking at me intently. Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me. I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater. He was speaking to me with great emotion, in German. When he put me down, he opened his wallet, showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money. I went home more certain than ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly complicated and interesting. (Kahneman, 2003, p. 417)
