Thinking, Fast and Slow (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 560 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking.
Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the biases of fast thinking and the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and our choices. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, he shows where we can trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking, contrasting the two-system view of the mind with the standard model of the rational economic agent.
Kahneman's singularly influential work has transformed cognitive psychology and launched the new fields of behavioral economics and happiness studies. In this path-breaking book, Kahneman shows how the mind works, and offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and personal lives--and how we can guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
Includes a bonus PDF of illustrations, scientific charts, graphs, and diagrams
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We all like to believe we base our decisions on reason rather than a rush to judgment. But according to Nobel Prize–winning researcher Daniel Kahneman, we all tend to do the latter. Fortunately, knowing about this tendency helps us correct it. Thinking, Fast and Slow explores the relationship between our intuitive mind—which moves quickly but is prone to unconscious biases and logical fallacies—and our analytical mind, which is far more difficult to engage, but more often leads us to the correct answer. Actor Patrick Egan relates Kahneman’s findings in a smooth, even voice that doesn’t get in the way of the heady ideas being presented, making this audiobook easy to listen to—and relisten to—for long, undisturbed stretches.
Customer Reviews
Good book but lack of chapter titles is annoying
Apple Books needs to get their act together lots of audio books here have no titles for chapters. This is a long and complex book which would serve right to have some chapter titles for reference. Annoying
Here are the splits for how Apple breaks up the tracks - used CHAT GPT
Perfect — thanks for sharing the full **Table of Contents** screenshots.
The Apple Books audiobook version of *Thinking, Fast and Slow* breaks the book into **202 tracks**, where each chapter is subdivided into small, digestible sections. The structure follows:
* **Introductory material** (Preface/Introduction) → several tracks
* **Each numbered chapter** (1–38) → split into multiple tracks depending on length
* **Conclusions & Appendices** → multiple tracks
* **Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index** → final tracks
Here’s the labeled breakdown you can use to map **202 tracks** (approximate distribution like Apple Books):
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### **Introduction**
* Track 1–7: Introduction
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### **Part I: Two Systems**
1. The Characters of the Story → Tracks 8–11
2. Attention and Effort → Tracks 12–15
3. The Lazy Controller → Tracks 16–19
4. The Associative Machine → Tracks 20–23
5. Cognitive Ease → Tracks 24–27
6. Norms, Surprises, and Causes → Tracks 28–31
7. A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions → Tracks 32–35
8. How Judgments Happen → Tracks 36–39
9. Answering an Easier Question → Tracks 40–43
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### **Part II: Heuristics and Biases**
10. The Law of Small Numbers → Tracks 44–47
11. Anchors → Tracks 48–51
12. The Science of Availability → Tracks 52–55
13. Availability, Emotion, and Risk → Tracks 56–59
14. Tom W’s Specialty → Tracks 60–63
15. Linda: Less is More → Tracks 64–67
16. Causes Trump Statistics → Tracks 68–71
17. Regression to the Mean → Tracks 72–75
18. Taming Intuitive Predictions → Tracks 76–79
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### **Part III: Overconfidence**
19. The Illusion of Understanding → Tracks 80–83
20. The Illusion of Validity → Tracks 84–87
21. Intuitions vs. Formulas → Tracks 88–91
22. Expert Intuition: When Can We Trust It? → Tracks 92–95
23. The Outside View → Tracks 96–99
24. The Engine of Capitalism → Tracks 100–103
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### **Part IV: Choices**
25. Bernoulli’s Errors → Tracks 104–107
26. Prospect Theory → Tracks 108–111
27. The Endowment Effect → Tracks 112–115
28. Bad Events → Tracks 116–119
29. The Fourfold Pattern → Tracks 120–123
30. Rare Events → Tracks 124–127
31. Risk Policies → Tracks 128–131
32. Keeping Score → Tracks 132–135
33. Reversals → Tracks 136–139
34. Frames and Reality → Tracks 140–143
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### **Part V: Two Selves**
35. Two Selves → Tracks 144–147
36. Life as a Story → Tracks 148–151
37. Experienced Well-Being → Tracks 152–157
38. Thinking About Life → Tracks 158–163
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### **Conclusion**
* Tracks 164–168
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### **Appendices**
Appendix A: Judgment Under Uncertainty → Tracks 169–177
Appendix B: Choices, Values, and Frames → Tracks 178–186
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### **Back Matter**
Acknowledgments → Tracks 187–190
Notes → Tracks 191–199
Index → Tracks 200–202
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✅ This structure mirrors how Apple splits it: each chapter broken into \~3–5 tracks depending on length, ending with 202 total.
This is a brilliant book
The only thing I have is that it might be hard to follow along.