personal lives - and how we can use
calls this “experienced” well-being, as
different techniques to guard against
opposed to the “remembered” well-
the mental glitches that often get us into
being that researchers had relied upon.
trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will
He found that these two measures
transform the way you think about think-
of happiness diverge in surprising ways.
ing. It will have you looking at the world
What makes the “experiencing self”
around you, your decisions and opin-
happy is not the same as what makes
ions, much differently. There is a lot to
the “remembering self” happy.
be attained and savored from this intel-
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then summed up over time? Kahneman
lectual read. In particular, the remembering self does not care about duration - how long a pleasant or unpleasant experience lasts. Rather, it retrospectively rates an experience by the peak level of pain or pleasure in the course of the experience, and by the way the experience ends. 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 Image source: business.livetalksla.org