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How “fast” and “slow” thinking can help us handle technostress
- Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, posits that there are two key cognitive systems that drive our thinking and the way we go about making decisions. The first system (System 1) is instinctual, emotional and fast. Conversely, the second system (System 2), is more strategic and methodical in its worki... See more
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- System 1 allows us to conserve mental energy when dealing with familiar patterns, and to react efficiently when faced with a situation that demands action rather than thought (you don’t want to be in a methodical frame of mind when deciding how to handle the information that a car is hurtling towards you). Still, most of us identify more closely wi... See more
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- We have unwittingly made a rod for our own backs by allowing technology to add to our mental burden rather than relieve it.
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