Thinking, Fast and Slow would be a great name for your mind, if it were a professional wrestling duo in the ‘80s. It is also the title of a 2011 best selling book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman which analyzes the dichotomy between two modes of thought – Intuition (System 1) and Reasoning (System 2).
This week we use the Internet as a springboard to start a conversation about how quickly we can jump to conclusions – both online and offline. We dig into our cognitive biases, which can often lead us astray in the art of decision-making, and we make note of the need to surround ourselves with people who can help us check and balance all of this.
Along the way we get a splash of Anchorman, a hat tip to early 90s SNL, and hear wise insights from Daniel Kahneman himself. We close by having a “dinner conversation” with author, entrepreneur, and traveller, Bassam Tarazi — who brings it all home.
Bassam Tarazi has been featured in Backpacker, Forbes, Young Entrepreneur, Life Reimagined and many other outlets. He's the author of: The Accountability Effect, In 5 Years You'll Be Wrong, and Borders, Bandits, And Baby Wipes. He's spoken at numerous universities around the country. An explora-preneur at heart, he's also traveled to 72 countries and all 7 continents; having had such absurd experiences as getting to Everest Base Camp and the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, driving from London to Mongolia in a 42 HP car, living on an Alaskan glacier for 8 days, and being hunted by a pig-tailed macaque in the jungles of Borneo (Long stories. You’ll need some Scotch for those.)
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