#daniel kahneman

[deviika]

F. Scott Fitzgerald // Daniel Kahneman

[philosophors]

“People who make a difference do not die alone. Something dies in everyone who was affected by them.”

— Daniel Kahneman

[ilciambellano]

Dall’analisi di oltre 450.000 risposte al Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index, un sondaggio quotidiano condotto su 1000 americani, emerge una risposta sorprendentemente netta al quesito più frequente della ricerca sul benessere: il denaro dà la felicità?9 La conclusione è che essere poveri rende infelici e che essere ricchi forse aumenta la soddisfazione per la qualità della propria vita, ma non migliora (in media) il benessere esperito. La grave indigenza amplifica gli effetti esperiti di altre disgrazie della vita; in particolare, la malattia fa molto più male agli indigenti che a chi dispone di maggior benessere economico. Il mal di testa incrementa la percentuale di quelli che riferiscono di provare tristezza e ansia, portandola dal 19 al 38 per cento nei soggetti appartenenti ai due terzi superiori della distribuzione del reddito. Le corrispondenti percentuali per il decimo della popolazione appartenente alle fasce di reddito più basso sono 38 e 70 per cento, un livello più alto nelle condizioni di base e un aumento molto più grande. Si osservano notevoli differenze tra i molto poveri e il resto della popolazione quando si vanno ad analizzare gli effetti del divorzio e della solitudine. Inoltre, gli effetti benefici del weekend sul benessere esperito sono assai inferiori tra i molto poveri che nella maggior parte delle altre persone. Il livello di appagamento oltre il quale il benessere esperito non aumenta più risulta essere un reddito familiare di circa 75.000 dollari nelle aree ad alto costo della vita (era inferiore in aree con un costo della vita più basso). L’aumento medio di benessere esperito associato a un reddito superiore a quello era assolutamente nullo. È curioso, perché un reddito maggiore permette indubbiamente di procurarsi molte cose che danno piacere, come vacanze in posti interessanti e biglietti per l’opera, nonché un migliore ambiente in cui vivere. Perché questi piaceri aggiuntivi non vengono riportati nei rapporti sull’esperienza emozionale? Un’interpretazione plausibile è che un reddito maggiore sia associato a una ridotta capacità di godersi i piccoli piaceri della vita. Alcune prove fanno pensare che questa ipotesi sia corretta: stimolare gli studenti con l’idea della ricchezza riduce il piacere che il loro volto esprime quando mangiano una tavoletta di cioccolato!

Daniel Kahneman - Pensieri lenti e veloci

[ma-pi-ma]

Niente nella vita è tanto importante quanto pensiamo che lo sia nel momento in cui lo pensiamo.

Daniel Kahneman

[dk-thrive]

Kahneman once said that being wrong feels good, that it gives the pleasure of a sense of motion: “I used to think something and now I think something else.” He was always wrong, always learning, always going somewhere new."

— Daniel Engber, from "Daniel Kahneman Wanted You to Realize How Wrong You Are." The late psychologist gave the world an extraordinary gift: admitting his mistakes. (The Atlantic, March 27, 2024)

[older-is-better]

Daniel Kahneman.

[jidaryat]

Facts that challenge such basic assumptions—and thereby threaten people’s livelihood and selfesteem—are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. This is particularly true of statistical studies of performance, which provide baserate information that people generally ignore when it clashes with their personal impressions from experience.

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow.

[raffaellopalandri]

Book of the Day -

Today’s Book of the Day is Thinking, Fast and Slow, written by Daniel Kahneman in 2013 and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist whose main research topics have been the psychology of judgment and decision-making, and behavioural economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L.…

[nicdevera]

daniel kahneman died. someone do a cartoon, kahneman goes to heaven, amos tversky's there: "hey danny, i've got an idea for a paper"

[lostlibrariangirl]

3 January - 100 Days of Productivity - 2/100

January will be my Data Structures and Algorithms month, as I must finish this course to move on with others I set for this year.

  I am using a learning platform from Brazil called Digital Innovation One (aka DIO), once I loved the instructor - he talks about DSA with so much passion, that it is impossible to do not be excited by it.

And about the books that I am going to read this year, I started with "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman ( "Stoic Diary" is just 1 text per day). I was looking for reading it for a long time.

[hug-your-face]

I came across the idea of a "cortical-thalamic pause" in an old novel. The idea being that we take better, more effective action in our lives when we integrate our emotion centers and our reasoning centers. It was a NOVEL, mind you, but coming across the idea as a kid probably helped my life a lot.

A surprisingly useful summary from Quora :

Thalamus/Thalamic is here used as a shorthand for the lower brain functions, associated with feelings, sensing, pain, pleasure, instincts, bodily functions, etc. Massive sub-conscious parallel processing goes on there and responses are often immediate. Neo-Cortex/Cortical is the shorthand for the higher, more recently developed, brain functions, associated with conscious thinking, reasoning, language use, deliberate decision making, etc. It can do abstract thinking, but can't focus on more than a couple of things at the same time.

We easily get in trouble when we mix the two. Our ability to abstract is rather new and apparently a bit faulty. The cortex might construct a "meaning" for some lower level sensations which gives rise to faulty decisions. The thalamic system might launch instant action based on what was sketchy reasoning in the cortex. E.g. killing somebody because they have the wrong religious belief. The idea of the pause is basically to be conscious of the link between one's reactions and one's reasoning, and to make sure they're in sync. It doesn't have to be a literal pause in time, but it could be. It is an equivalent of "count to ten before you...".

If you were about to take impulsive physical action, the pause would allow you to think through the logic and implications of what you were about to do. The other way around, if you thought you just arrived at a logical, well reasoned conclusion, a semantic pause would allow you to notice what you actually feel about it, what your instincts tell you. Does it feel right? Does it work?

The primary ingredient is consciousness. Pay attention. Be aware. Examine everything that is there, including your own thoughts, your premises, your feelings, what you perceive. -- There are certain tools that are helpful. A consciousness of abstraction is vital. Simply being aware that there are many levels of abstraction between what really is there and what you put into words and thoughts. Not just being aware of that, but specifically examining the transition between a "thing" and its abstraction. At what point do some rays of light become a picture in your brain? At what point do you group it together with other tables you've seen, to identify it as a "table"? At what point does the word "table" lose its connection with the particular image you saw?

The objective is to take decisions and actions that are coherent, congruent and sane at all levels. The cortico-thalamic pause is a system check and a consistency check at and between multiple levels.

Learning to be less reactive is literally saving my life. I’m finally understanding that processing things is not the same as immediately forming a response to them. I can process without feeling pressed to formulate a reaction to what someone said or did or a situation that displeases me. Not that a quick head on your shoulders is necessarily a bad thing, but 9/10 taking a minute to just process could save you so much trouble

[maktbah]

Book Summary: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a bestselling book with over 2.6 million copies sold, delves into human thinking from a top psychologist and Nobel Prize-winning economist. Chosen by The New York Times Book Review and The Wall Street Journal as one of the top books of the year, this modern masterpiece explores the two systems that control our thought process: the quick, instinctive…

[frankmweber]

Can money buy happiness?

In my previous post I looked at the distribution of wealth, which then obviously leads to the question of whether money can buy happiness. And according to recent research more seems indeed to be better. This is according to new research by Matthew Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which shows that the correlation between wealth and well-being…

[linusjf]

Daniel Kahneman: They need a story

“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.”— Daniel Kahneman.