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We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
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Daniel Kahneman was a Nobel Prize winning psychologist, economist and an author of best-selling books such as “Thinking Fast & Slow”. Also, Daniel Kahneman was a professor of psychology at Princeton University. He is also someone who took pleasure in admitting his mistakes and working towards improving his beliefs.
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Do you know that even the single stream of thoughts we usually have is governed by two parallel cognitive systems which Daniel Kahneman calls System 1 and System 2.
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System 1 is fast, automatic and emotional. It helps us recall 2 x 2 = 4 on the go. With System 1, your brain helps you make quick decisions in your everyday life.
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System 2 is deliberate, slow and logical. It helps you solve complex problems. With System 2, your brain produce thinking that helps you understand problems, figure out the reasoning and then solve it.
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Expert intuition strikes us as magical, but it is not. Each of us performs feats of intuitive expertise many times each day.
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System 1 is focused on identifying patterns and associations in our environment. It then stores these patterns in memory where the System 2 takes hold of these patterns and tries to make sense of it. Also, once System 1 adds these impressions and associations to our memory, it becomes beliefs in our memory.
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As quoted earlier, intuition is a process built upon the set of unconscious biases collected and gathered over our lives. Even though System 1 may be looked down upon due to its susceptibility towards biases, it is the one that has always helped us survive due to its approach to making decisions quickly. When in life-threatening situation, System 1 helps us make quick decisions that helps us get out of those situations. Such as hearing a distant voice in the dark heightens our senses and help us perceive the danger.
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System 2 believes itself to be where the action is, but system 1 is the secret author of many of the choices and judgements you make.
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Unlike System 1, system 2 is often on the rest mode and only activates when there is a complex problem or something that has not been stored in our memory. Also, as system 1 governs the quick decisions, it helps us identify mistakes in others’ behaviour in everyday life. For example, the halo effect is where we perceive a person’s character based on their first impression. That is why a handsome, charming person is often perceived as someone who is intelligent, successful and having good manners. However, this thinking is of course flawed.
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The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.
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Mostly, our brains want to save energy and therefore would always want to make quick decisions even if it risks making the wrong call. However, as system 1 cannot always solve the big problems, it will call system 2 in action where the system 2 then does the reasoning to solve the problem.
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Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder.
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System 1 is a different self where it helps us form memories that we use to draw our self from. System 2, on the other hand, is different self because it evaluates the present and past information to make a decision. However, as the system 1 is not always reliable, we need to refine our thinking process to be able to make sense of situations. For example, a consistency in events may be a better indicator of identifying a certain behaviour rather than relying on the past information from our memory. You should know, however, that is not easy for us to change our behaviour even in face of stats.
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Even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience.
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And lastly, I truly agree that making our decisions based on certain appearances or short meeting may not be enough to get a real idea about anyone’s personality. You need to be able to find the consistencies in the behaviour to be able to form a true opinion.
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