topic: [[Deciding]] people: #people/danielkahneman created: 2023-07-26 *Type I thinking, taking the shortcut to decisions, living in the moment in all its human glory and error.* This reminds me of [[happy people tend to be those who control their time and energy]], if you are always expending extra energy by not taking advantage of shortcuts, you don't have the energy for the important things! Steve Jobs had one color shirt, Barak Obama had one color suit. [[preparing the way]] helps get [[Future Lon]] to the right place because [[our environment shapes our behavior]] if we let it. [[heuristics]] are mental shortcuts. Heuristics can be helpful! This matters because it can be more effective to not make type II thinking decisions all day because [[ego depletion]] adds up, and [[decision fatigue]] happens if we want it to or not. ##### What would the opposite argument be? There isn't really an opposite argument for heuristics, they exist. The question is, are we good at telling when we should use them or when they might let us down? How can we tell when our learning has been effective in helping us develop useful heuristics? Since [[learning happens naturally]], heuristics are developing regardless of the effectiveness of the process. One problem is the boundaries of our expertise can be blind to us and observers, resulting in some [[Expert Blind Spot]]. Often our expertise should be considered narrower than we think. So, a real challenge is we cannot tell when we are in an effective Dunning-Kruger situation or not. [[Naturalistic decision-making]] is an alternative view of how people make decisions. In NDM tags: #note/idea | #on/decisions ##### Sources: Kahneman, D. (2013). _Thinking, fast and slow_ (1st pbk. ed). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.