Final Words
- Our System 1 is our automatic system and it is responsible for a lot of what we do wrong. It is also responsible for what we do right, which is most of what we do. Thoughts and actions guided by System 1 are generally on the mark. Kahneman admits that it is even hard for him to educate his System 1 and know when to slow down and bring System 2 into play, but he has made progress and encourages the readers to do the same.
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Correction: December 18, 2011
A review on Nov. 27 about “Thinking, Fast and Slow” erroneously attributed a distinction to the book’s author, Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel in economic science in 2002. His being a psychologist was indeed unusual but did not make his award “unique in the history of the prize.” Another psychologist, Herbert A. Simon, won the award in 1978. (Simon, a polymath and interdisciplinarian, was also an economist, a political scientist and a sociologist.)
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