Reading Reflection No. 2 (ENT3003 Assignment 21A)

1. The theme of the book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman is about being aware of there being two systems in your head that are constantly in a battle over which one will control your actions.
2. This class has taught me that you can't just have a set plan and expect it to go that way. This book builds on that by giving the pros and cons of both systems and helping us find ways to organically incorporate both when making a decision.
3. An exercise for this class, built around this book, can be writing down the reaction to a situation using both systems and writing about the strengths and weaknesses of those approaches. Then, try to incorporate both of them before writing about how that combined approach differed from the individual ones.
4. The biggest surprise to me is that it was said that the second system, which involves being conscious, is one of the most 'recent' additions to our brain and only a few thousand years old.