#68 Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice

Delay your intuition. Don't try to form an intuition quickly, which is what we normally do. Focus on the separate points. And then when you have the whole profile Then you can have an intuition and it's going to be better.

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Today I'm speaking with Daniel Conman. Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Princeton, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in two thousand and two for the work he did. on decision making with a most diverse game. Danny is the most influential living psychologist, a true legend in his field, and this conversation was a great honor. Publicly, he's probably best known for his book Thinking Fast and Slow and his work on drawing attention to our cognitive biases.

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