{"id":3747,"date":"2016-05-26T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2016-05-26T18:24:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T23:24:48","slug":"thinking-like-a-grown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/thinking-like-a-grown-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Like a Grown-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Nancy LeTourneau at Political Animal for reminding us of the virtue of thinking like the Tortoise (slowly and consciously) rather than the Hare (fast, emotionally and subconsciously). \u00a0We can benefit from that kind of thinking as citizens and voters (and human beings), and we can hope for it in our office-holders. \u00a0Here’s her nice consideration from the other day:<\/p>\n

May 23, 2016 10:00 AM<\/span><\/p>\n

Tortoise Thinking in a Hare World<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Nancy LeTourneau<\/p>\n

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One of my favorite fairy tales is the one about the tortoise and the hare. For a lot of reasons I won\u2019t bore you with, I\u2019ve found that the old adage, \u201cslow and steady wins the race,\u201d is most often true. That\u2019s why I was so interested to learn about a book by Daniel Kahneman titled: Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First of all, Kahneman has an interesting biography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2002, Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel in economic science. What made this unusual is that Kahneman is a psychologist. Specifically, he is one-half of a pair of psychologists who, beginning in the early 1970s, set out to dismantle an entity long dear to economic theorists: that arch-rational decision maker known as Homo economicus. The other half of the dismantling duo, Amos Tversky, died in 1996 at the age of 59. Had Tversky lived, he would certainly have shared the Nobel with Kahneman, his longtime collaborator and dear friend.
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\nHuman irrationality is Kahneman\u2019s great theme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/i>, Kahneman captures what is going on today in our politics, crisis journalism, and social media by identifying the two ways that our brains develop thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

System 1<\/b>: Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious
\nSystem 2<\/b>: Slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious<\/p>\n

I can think of no better way to demonstrate these two systems than an interchange between President Obama and Ed Henry at a press conference back in 2009.<\/p>\n