THINKING, FAST & SLOW (DANIEL KAHNEMAN) - Listening books
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The Mental Shotgun
David Frum: We often compute much more than we want or need. He calls this excess computation the mental shotgun. In one experiment, people listened to pairs of words with instruction to press a key as quickly as possible whenever they detected that the words rhymed. An intention to answer one question evoked another, which was not only superfluous but actually detrimental to the main task., he says.
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