Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - A 30-Minute Summary

By: Instaread Summaries

Narrated by: Jason P. Hilton

Length: 1 hr and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

With Instaread Summaries, you can get the summary of a book in 30 minutes or less. We read every chapter, summarize, and analyze it for your convenience. This is an Instaread Summary of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Below is a preview of the earlier sections of the summary.

Introduction: In this book, Daniel Kahneman hopes to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice. He wants to provide a richer and more accurate vocabulary to discuss these errors. He worked with his colleague, Amos Tversky, doing research on intuitive statistics. The two of them had already concluded in an earlier seminar that their own intuitions were lacking. Their subjective judgments were biased, they were too willing to believe research findings based on inadequate evidence, and they collected too few observations in their own research. The goal of their study was to find out whether other researchers had this problem as well. Kahneman and Tversky found that participants in their studies ignored the relevant statistical facts and relied exclusively on resemblance. They used resemblance as a heuristic (rule of thumb) to simplify things when making a difficult judgment. Relying on this heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions. The research partners learned that people tend to determine the importance of issues by how easy they are retrieved from their memory. This is brought about in large part by the extent of coverage of the issues in the media. Kahneman presents a view of how the mind works, drawing on recent developments in cognitive and social psychology. He explains the differences between fast (intuitive) thinking and slow (deliberate) thinking. People have a limitation in their minds: an excessive confidence in what they think they know.

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What was with that mean review at the end?

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This was a summary of a book that interests me a great deal. The summary was fine as they go.

Any additional comments?

What was with the mean review at the end? I wasn't giving it my 100% attention so I am not sure who was giving it the review, but that was completely unnecessary and I felt rather inappropriate.

Good, but audio is inconsistent

Everything's great, however the audio stops and goes randomly. Please fix this glitch soon as possible.

Hard topic to digest by hearing it

This is a great topic but is hard to follow as an audio book, especially if try to hear and drive.

I like it

The narrator makes a little error around chapters 40 or 41 and snaps his fingers before he starts again, but no problem, it's good

Poor Editing by Instaread

There's a recognizable error followed by a clapperboard sound around the 1 hour mark. Choosing to finish off the recording with a critical review of a book you didn't write and yet profit from seems tacky, if not offensive.

Not worth the listen

I have read the full book and wanted to see whether it was possible to get the essence in the summary, but I don't think it is possible. First thing is that the summary is dry dry dry since it does not include the experiments that make the insights so memorable.

That was bad enough but the narrator then started butchering certain names like Bayesian, and even worse, he misread the word 'causal' for 'casual' which was repeated about ten times. They wasn't just irritating, it was confusing.

I just switched it off at that point.

Short shrift for an important book

This is a so-so summary followed by a negative review of the best seller. A narrator who mispronounces key words and seems to not understand the subject gives a negative review to a Nobel Prize winner's ground breaking work. That is idiotic and highly inappropriate!
Instaread Summaries should focus on better quality summaries and eliminate reviews, especially those by clueless narrators.

Format errors in audio

No issue with the reader himself but the editing of this audio was difficult to consume. Multiple repeated lines and background noise throughout.

Great book, deeply flawed reading

The book is important. The summarization is ok. The reader, however, mispronounces or misunderstands words (not in an ok way - he says other words which mean OTHER THJNGS) that are central to the concepts under discussion - totally ruining them.

good, but

good but very critical summary by the reader at the end...added no value. he seemed bitter and angry that he had to read the book