In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize–winning economist Daniel Kahneman describes 2 modes of thinking, using terms coined by psychologists Keith Stanovich and Richard West:
“System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. The operations of System 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice, and concentration.”
Much of our decision making and daily operations are dictated by System 1. System 2, being the “Effortful System” prefers to be used much less frequently. Some say it is lazy!
“System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. The operations of System 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice, and concentration.”
Much of our decision making and daily operations are dictated by System 1. System 2, being the “Effortful System” prefers to be used much less frequently. Some say it is lazy!
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