I just finished Laughter is Better Than Communism by Andrew Heaton. A very funny book, including great commentary on multiple political thingys. Only $4 ! (I love the comedian that wrote it and wish to promote him as far and wide as possible, so I can see him in more places and things.)
I’m about to pick up Basic Economics, 5th edition by Thomas-Sowell Probably the closest thing I have to a bible… (I’ve read the 4th ed a couple of times.) I’ve got the link to an interview for the book in my sig.
But Erik, you failed to say what exactly you’re talking about.
By the way, I’m enjoying the audiobooks. I’m pretty good at [arguing] but not disciplined nor have the knowledge to present a good argument et cetera and being that I am not that knowledgeable in the first place as most here are, I need all the help which I can muster. I would call myself more the “dabbler”.
I’m so looking forward to continuing with it.
In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.
I read Kahneman a couple of months ago. What disturbed me was that he hadn’t developed a theory - hardly a good description - to define the types 1 and 2. You have to learn them by his analyses of examples. To understand them you might need cognitive psychology.
Well, anyway, I kind of eat this stuff up and i know that I will learn from it. Anything which has to do with the mind fascinates me - leaves us open to more reflection and speculation and understanding of self.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how disturbed were you?
So, are you saying that you did not go along with him and his views?
.
But that I think is good. Analogies and examples are a great way to learn things - because of what we do know already, we are better able to understand.
Yummy. Might you say that it could open up the doors of one’s mind to understanding more of cognitive psychology?
No, on the contrary. I agree with his ideas completely.
Think of an explorer who had found a new land. He describes its nature, people, social organizations, etc, so well that you can easily imagine what it would be like to live there. But he don’t tell where it is, what are its neighbours or how you could get there. You cannot associate it with your present worldview; sooner or later you’ll forget it as any useless information.
That’s what disturbed me. Kahneman’s views are too remarkable to be left forgotten. I won’t forget them; I have made associations my way, but I would have liked to know more about his, just to get a firmer ground under my feet.
[size=150]Will in the World[/size]
How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt
Greenblatt knows more about [Shakespeare] than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did."―John Leonard, ?Harper’s
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright. ?A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist.
I am cursed in that I despise reading. I will begin and then stop and then do it on my own. So I started writing my own ORM.
Which is definitively not a good idea because I’m not going to be able to learn enough for the exam. So what do I do? I stop writing my ORM and stop reading the book. I do nothing and simply wait for the last moment. Then I do everything and, strangely, things always work out fine.