Title: 6 Things I Learned From the Book "Thinking Fast and Slow" | The Motley Fool
Headings: 6 Things I Learned From the Book "Thinking Fast and Slow"
6 Things I Learned From the Book "Thinking Fast and Slow"
Insight from Daniel Kahneman.
1. The most important things in life are unpredictable:
2. We are gullible:
3. Our minds choose the familiar over the true:
4. Really smart people can fool themselves:
5. We are blind to our own blindness:

Content: Our minds choose the familiar over the true: People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public's mind. It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media. Because public interest is most easily aroused by dramatic events and by celebrities, media feeding frenzies are common. For several weeks after Michael Jackson's death, for example, it was virtually impossible to find a television channel reporting on another topic. In contrast, there is little coverage of critical but unexciting issues that provide less drama, such as declining educational standards or overinvestment of medical resources in the last year of life. ( As I write this, I notice that my choice of "little-covered" examples was guided by availability. The topics I chose as examples are mentioned often;