What Daniel Kahneman thinks about optimism

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Psychologist and Nobel laureate (1934 to 2024); shared the 2002 Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for integrating psychological research into economics; with Amos Tversky, developed prospect theory and the study of heuristics and biases.

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12 Oct 2019

Our readingOrganizations are a better hope than individuals for improving judgment, because they think more slowly and have procedures that can be controlled, while individual judgment is really hard to fix.

Their wordsI'm much more hopeful about organizations because organizations think more slowly and they have procedures for thinking and so you can control the procedures individual judgement is really hard to fix not impossible

↗Daniel Kahneman | The Knowledge Project #68youtube.com 5th of 12 in this recording