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The topic is psychology and the work is for my english book reveiw.

Introduction or Why did I decide to read this book.

One of my childhood friends is a student of psychology, and about a year ago we had an interesting conversation about the pliability of the mind. The conversation was quite informative since I was not as knowledgeable on the topic of psychology as I believed I was. My friend pointed out that we are all subjected to a large number of different cognitive biases and illusions that we develop throughout our life. These biases range from things like our routines and habits to social situations we find ourselves in on a daily basis. As my friend and I dwelt deeper into our conversation, that particular topic, the mind, was practically imprinted on me. Since he saw my huge interest, he suggested to me that I should read this book. Actually, he is the one that borrowed it to me. Some of the most important pieces of information I extracted from this book where the concepts of two thinking systems, or so called methods, and social convention formation which we, as individuals, give meaning to. Furthermore, Daniel Kahneman’s: thinking, fast and slow, is quite closely connected to my field and I believe that these insights will become extremely useful further down my educational path.

REWIEV
The book is written by a developmental psychologist and an economist, Daniel Kahneman. He is a 2002 Nobel Prize winner in Economics. But besides his interest in the global markets and public and state affairs, he devoted his life to understanding the human mind, our mind.
Due to a large number of psychological concepts described in the book, I will limit myself to describing only one so I could be as concise in explaining it as possible.
The book starts with the most fundamental concept of thinking, the concept of two selves. Mr. Kahneman clearly explains the difference between them, firstly, from a biological perspective and secondly, from a cognitive perspective. As it is stated from a biological perspective, humans have evolved through a gradual process of evolution where form our closest ancestor “Homo erectus” to the present day humans, our neo-cortex has exponentially grown. That growth gave “us”, and still gives us to this day, the ability of complex planning and reasoning. Our “mind”, and sense of “self”, is not only located in our prefrontal lobes and our neo-cortex, but everywhere in our brain. Ancestral mode of thinking is still present to this day and completes the picture of “self”. The division from a biological side was clearly made to a prerevolutionary limbic system called System 1, and post evolutionary neo-cortex called System 2. Each of them gives us a different reasoning ability alongside our planning capacity. Not to be mistaken, these modes of thinking are just imaginary systems that aid us in our understanding of that particular concept. They are not present anywhere in specific in the brain. The second perspective, the cognitive one, tackles the more difficult questions like understanding the world around us, and how these two systems differ from one another. The first system, or so called System 1, is the one that operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. Some of the examples include - understanding simple sentences, orient to the source of a sudden sound, detect the distances between objects in our environment, read, and so on. Whilst on the other hand, System 2 is in charge of all of our mental computations and reasoning. System 2 follows a strict pattern of rules and requires our outmost attention to function. Some of the examples include – telling someone your phone number, filling out a tax form, counting the occurrences of the letter “a” on a page, parking in a narrow space, and so on. Since System 1 is an automatic one, it does not require any effort from our side. It generates the world, usually with great precision, in which we function just fine. On the other hand, System 2 is the one we have to train all of our life. Throughout the course of our life, we are taught rules to which we abide on occasion that require that specific behavior. Like on a math test, we have to utilize our math skills which are basically a strict set of rules, on a step by step basis, so we would be able to compute an answer. Most of the time, System 2 is not the prime way of dealing with our day to day occurrences, and as a result, System 1 generates an answer which, if we do not involve our System 2 to verify, might be completely wrong. When a situation like that occurs, we call it a cognitive illusion. State where by knowing the rules we deliberately disregarded them and came to a wrong conclusion.
As author points out on more than several occasions, the usefulness of us understanding the concept of two systems helps prevent some of the cognitive illusions and biases that we are all prone to undergo. With time and understanding, we learn how to maximize our impact in the world and become a bit more logical in our decision making. This book can potentially give everyone a fresh paradigm on their thinking method and help them understand how their decisions are made and what where the impacts that led to those decisions.

Final paragraph or What I think about the book?
As field of psychology is closely related to social work, my intend was, and it still is, to develop a skill-set not only unanimous to social work but one that is interchangeable with other related fields within social sciences. I believe that through modular and diverse knowledge of not just my field, but related fields, one can perform their task of assisting others much more effectively. Furthermore, understanding the human mind and the minds capacity to work within the fabric of society is my most ambitious goal yet.
Through this book, I received immense help in understanding human decision making and planning processes.
I have to say that I did not come across a language barrier and the read was quite easy. It contained a lot of technical terms but I was acquainted to them before reading the book.
Based on the topic of the book, I believe that this would be a great book for any social scientist and it has my highest recommendation.
  

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Introduction or Why did I decide to read this book. If this is the question you'll answer, end with a question mark. " One of my childhood friends is a student of psychology, and about a year ago we had an interesting conversation about the pliability of the mind.

  • Introduction or Why did I decide to read this book.
  • If this is the question you'll answer, end with a question mark.
  • " One of my childhood friends is a student of psychology, and about a year ago we had an interesting conversation about the pliability of the mind.
  • The conversation was quite informative since I was not as knowledgeable on the topic of psychology as I believed I was.
  • My friend pointed out that we are all subjected "Subjected to" means coerced.
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Introduction or Why did I decide to read this book.
If this is the question you'll answer, end with a question mark. Otherwise say, "Why I decided to read this book."

One of my childhood friends is a student of psychology, and about a year ago we had an interesting conversation about the pliability of the mind. The conversation was quite informativ
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