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"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it."
-Daniel Kahneman
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Say what you will, they don’t hand out the Nobel prize for economics like it’s a slice of pizza. Ergo, when Daniel Kahneman does something, it’s worth paying attention to.
His 2011 book, Thinking Fast And Slow , deals with the two systems in our brain, whose fighting over who’s in charge makes us prone to errors and false decisions.
It shows you where you can and can’t trust your gut feeling and how to act more mindfully and make better decisions.
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Want to school your brain? Let’s take a field trip through the mind!
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Kahneman labels the 2 systems in your mind as follows.
System 1 is automatic and impulsive .
It’s the system you use when someone sketchy enters the train and you instinctively turn towards the door and what makes you eat the entire bag of chips in front of the TV when you just wanted to have a small bowl.
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System 2 is very conscious, aware and considerate .
It helps you exert self-control and deliberately focus your attention. This system is at work when you’re meeting a friend and trying to spot them in a huge crowd of people, as it helps you recall how they look and filter out all these other people.
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Here’s an easy trick to show you how this conflict of 2 systems affects you, it’s called the bat and ball problem.
A baseball bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
I’ll give you a second.
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Why does your brain do this? Just as with habits, it wants to save energy . The law of least effort states that your brain uses the minimum amount of energy for each task it can get away with.
So when it seems system 1 can handle things, it won’t activate system 2. In this case, though, it leads you to not use all of your IQ points, even though you’d actually need to, so our brain limits our intelligence by being lazy.
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Even though Milton Friedman’s research about economics built the foundation of today’s work in the field, eventually we came to grips with the fact that the homo oeconomicus , the man (or woman) who only acts based on rational thinking, first introduced by John Stuart Mill , doesn’t quite resemble us.
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Imagine these 2 scenarios:
Which choice would you make for each one?
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If you’re like most people, you would rather take the safe $500 in scenario 1, but the gamble in scenario 2. Yet the odds of ending up at $1,000, $1,500 or $2,000 are the exact same in both.
The reason has to do with loss aversion. We’re a lot more afraid to lose what we already have, as we are keen on getting more .
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We also perceive value based on reference points. Starting at $2,000 makes you think you’re in a better starting position, which you want to protect.
Lastly, we get less sensitive about money (called diminishing sensitivity principle ), the more we have. The loss of $500 when you have $2,000 seems smaller than the gain of $500 when you only have $1,000, so you’re more likely to take a chance.
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Be aware of these things. Just knowing your emotions try to confuse you when it’s time to talk money will help you make better decisions. Try to consider statistics, probability and when the odds are in your favor, act accordingly.
Don’t let emotions get in the way where they have no business. After all, rule number 1 for any good poker player is “Leave your emotions at home.”
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Kahneman’s thinking in Thinking Fast And Slow reminds a bit of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile . Very scientific, all backed up with math and facts, yet simple to understand. I highly recommend this book!
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