By The Boy Who Procrastinates - August 31, 2018

Last year, I have read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. The book sheds light on the working systems of the human mind and how it can be susceptible to cognitive biases, fallacies and illusions. 

The title was first introduced to me during my Managerial Economics lecture when the Professor fervently recommended it to the class and provided only positive review. As it distills a lifetime of research that Kahneman has conducted in collaboration with the late Amos Tversky, some of the ideas demonstrated can be slightly abstract. It usually requires re-reading of certain chapters in order to grasp the essence of the psychological basis for our behaviour and choices. Overall, I must admit that the recommendation certainly did not disappoint at all. 

As the book presents numerous compelling insights