Thinking, Fast and Slow

The New York Times has just rated Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow one of the 10 best books of 2011, and it's been getting a lot of positive buzz in the stores as well.  Kahneman delves into human thought processes, particularly how we make snap decisions versus reasoned, logical conclusions.  We could quote the New York Times telling you how important and memorable the book is, but instead here's what they say about why experiences that end unpleasantly are remembered as worse than those that are consistently unpleasant:

"As with colonoscopies, so too with life. It is the remembering self that calls the shots, not the experiencing self."
 
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