{"id":320,"date":"2014-11-13T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T12:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andypalmer.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2014-11-13T12:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T12:02:38","slug":"thinking-out-loud-fast-and-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/2014\/11\/thinking-out-loud-fast-and-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking (out loud) Fast and Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an <a href=\"\/tag\/unfinished-thought\">unfinished thought<\/a>. Conversation is encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman\/dp\/0141033576\/ref=sr_1_1?tag=andpal-21\">Thinking Fast and Slow<\/a> by Daniel Kahneman(<a href=\"https:\/\/kindle.amazon.com\/profile\/Andy-Palmer\/1155091\/public_notes\">check out my Kindle highlights<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Kahneman was one of the first to identify cognitive bias in our thinking, and this book describes a metaphor for two systems of thinking; System 1 (fast, intuitive, prone to bias) and System 2 (slow, methodical, conscious) working together to influence our interaction with the world.<\/p>\n<p>System 1 is generally to do with emotion and feeling, but it also deals with facts if those facts have a strong belief behind them (for example, 2+2=4; Paris is the capital of France).<br \/>\nI have often coached people to use strong metaphors to express their ideas, and reading the early chapters of this book, I think part of the reason that I do this is that strong metaphors are much easier to absorb into System 1. <\/p>\n<p>An engaging story is easier to absorb and express to others than a complicated description that requires conscious attention. This applies as much to code as is does to writing or speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unfinished thought. Conversation is encouraged. I&#8217;ve started reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman(check out my Kindle highlights) Kahneman was one of the first to identify cognitive bias in our thinking, and this book describes a metaphor for two systems of thinking; System 1 (fast, intuitive, prone to bias) and System [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,36,38,37,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}