The Lying Fast Brain

Daniel Kahneman reveals why your fastest, most capable mental system is also your most dangerous. The bat-and-ball problem — where most people instantly answer "ten cents" instead of the correct five — exposes how System 1 fires before System 2 can intervene. The 1974 wheel-of-fortune experiment with Amos Tversky proved something unsettling: people who saw "65" guessed nearly double those who saw "10" on an identical question, even knowing the number was random. This book maps where intuition saves you and where anchoring sells you out.

You'll learn:

- Why the "was $199, now $79" tag hijacks your judgment

- How expert intuition differs from bias in disguise

- When certainty signals the exact moment to distrust yourself