Thinking, Fast and Slow, and the fast mind at home

The book calls them System 1 and System 2. System 1 jumps to answers. System 2 checks the work, when it bothers to show up.

Most of the book is about the errors System 1 makes. It judges by what comes to mind first. It feels sure when it has little reason to.

It is right that most of what you do runs on System 1. It is right that System 2 is lazy and needs a reason to step in.

It is also honest that knowing about these errors does not make you immune to them. Even the experts in the book fall for them.

Most of the examples are about money, numbers and choices. The book says little about the fast mind at home, with the people you love.

A repeating pattern is System 1 at its quickest. The urge to pull away or to snap arrives as a feeling, not a thought.

Readers often ask how to make System 2 show up. The book's honest answer is that it often will not, on its own.

Behavioral Interception is the practice of catching an automatic pattern as it begins, intercepting its usual response, and practicing a different action until it becomes more natural.

It gives the slow mind a reason to step in. The reason is the body signal, a tight chest or hot face, felt before the words.

Feel it and name the pattern. Then do a different action you chose ahead of time. Repeat it until it runs fast too.