Invisible gorillas
If you click on the picture you will see a review of the book from The Guardian.
Daniel Kahneman has written an interesting book about thoughts.
He means that our brain more is designed for a life in the jungle, than for a modern life.
Our intuition or gut-feeling often leads us in the wrong way - because of that. Because those feelings are programmed in us from long ago...
So fast thinking i often not so good.
And this fast and impulsive thinking is what we are trying to be aware of with the help of mindfulness. By being aware of them, we don't have to be trapped by them...
Kahneman writes that we also have another way of thinking - Kahneman calls it system 2, it's when we concentrate on something and perhaps make an analyse of it.We often think that this kind of thinking is the I.
But experiments has shown that we often are guided by the gut-feeling and chance. We really don't know who we are.
When we concentrate of something we often, misses a lot. So the thinking of system 1, can be adequate even outside of the jungle. This experiment shows the phenomena.
http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html
But by the knowledge we have today - we don´t have to be afraid of gorillas. So we can more often concentrate on a problem and then hopefully make better choices.
Kahneman writes that we better think things over and search for evidence, and that is true also for mindfulness....
Daniel Kahneman has written an interesting book about thoughts.
He means that our brain more is designed for a life in the jungle, than for a modern life.
Our intuition or gut-feeling often leads us in the wrong way - because of that. Because those feelings are programmed in us from long ago...
So fast thinking i often not so good.
And this fast and impulsive thinking is what we are trying to be aware of with the help of mindfulness. By being aware of them, we don't have to be trapped by them...
Kahneman writes that we also have another way of thinking - Kahneman calls it system 2, it's when we concentrate on something and perhaps make an analyse of it.We often think that this kind of thinking is the I.
But experiments has shown that we often are guided by the gut-feeling and chance. We really don't know who we are.
When we concentrate of something we often, misses a lot. So the thinking of system 1, can be adequate even outside of the jungle. This experiment shows the phenomena.
http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html
But by the knowledge we have today - we don´t have to be afraid of gorillas. So we can more often concentrate on a problem and then hopefully make better choices.
Kahneman writes that we better think things over and search for evidence, and that is true also for mindfulness....
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