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“Thinking
too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It’s important to think things
through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.” –Robert Herjavec
Enough
has been said about thinking too little. But there are also those who think too
much. There is even an adage mentioning that if you spend too much thinking on
a certain thing, you will never get it done.
When
stalling occurs, you are actually trying to explore possibilities, you are giving
yourself a leeway to ponder on a decision that you have to make. But what if
you are stalling all the time?
Daniel
Kahneman’s 2011 bestselling book “Thinking Fast and Slow” describes two
distinct thinking systems: Fast thinking (system 1): which is automatic,
intuitive, error-prone and used for most common decisions. Slow thinking
(system 2): which is effortful, reasoned, more reliable and used for complex
decisions.
Fast
thinking is a primal survival mechanism that uses heuristics, or cognitive
shortcuts, to quickly respond to threats. It is fast but those shortcuts are
ultimately unreliable. In contrast, slow thinking requires considerable
attention and delivers a more accurate understanding.
Based
on these findings, we can say that Thinking Slow might give us the best decisions.
But saving our lives and acting quickly can also be meaningful hence we have to
Think Fast.
Fast
and slow thinking is one of the most significant mental models listed on modelthinkers.com
because it underpins so much of our modern understanding of behavioral science,
behavioral economics, psychology, marketing and humanity.
Metacognition
is the process of thinking about thinking. It’s about examining how we take in
and process information, and figuring out ways we can do that more efficiently.
On
a practical level, practicing metacognition can help us understand better what will
work for us and what won’t.
Ergo,
we have to think fast sometimes and think slow most of the time.
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