Feeling Smart, Eyal Winter
Feeling Smart, Eyal Winter
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Feeling Smart

Author: Eyal Winter

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 01/01/2015


Synopsis

Distinguished authors like Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb have written much about the flaws in the human brain when it comes time to make a decision. Our intuitions and passions frequently fail us, leading to outcomes we don't want.

In this book, Eyal Winter, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wonders: why? If our emotions are so destructive and unreliable, why has evolution left us with them? The answer is that, even though they may not behave in a purely logical manner, our emotions frequently lead us to better, safer, more optimal outcomes.

In fact, as Winter discovers, there is often logic in emotion, and emotion in logic. For instance, many mutually beneficial commitments—such as marriage, or being a member of a team—are only possible when underscored by emotion rather than deliberate thought. The difference between pleasurable music and bad noise is mathematically precise; yet it is also the result of evolution. And our inherent overconfidence—the mathematically impossible fact that most people see themselves as above average—affords us advantages in competing for things we benefit from, like food and money and romance. Other subjects illuminated in the book include the rationality of seemingly illogical feelings like trust, anger, shame, ego, and generosity.

Already a bestseller in Israel, Feeling Smart brings together game theory, evolution, and behavioral science to produce a surprising and very persuasive defense of how we think, even when we don't.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ela

Orjinal dilinde okumayı tercih ederdim. Duygularla ilgili çok farklı bir pencere açmamasına rağmen paylaşılan araştırmalar veri sağlama açısından çok değerli. Yazarın ekonomi alanından bir akademisyen olması da kitapın çerçevesini bu yönde çiziyor özellikle ilgi alanı davranış ekonomisi olanlara tav......more

Goodreads review by Rita

Some contradictions to the other books I've read on emotions, but the more I learn about current neuroscience, the more questions I have about what exactly it is that makes us human. This book contributed to that. Good read.......more

Goodreads review by Racheli

ספר מעניין מאוד, שעוסק רבות בכלכלה ותורת המשחקים, למרות שזה לא כ"כ מצופה לפי שמו. למדתי דברים חדשים. היה חסר לי איזשהו קו מקשר בין כל הפרקים בספר.......more

Goodreads review by Bilal

Duyguların rasyonellik ile çeliştiğini düşünürdüm bu kitabı okuyana kadar.......more