Every human wants to have a better future but I know that it would be difficult to (2)scrape through if I don’t have knowledge of psychology based on economics. However, it can be learned from the book, “Thinking, Fast And Slow”. It is useful when I need to make a decision in uncertain situations. It was written in 2011 by Daniel Kahneman who won the Economics Nobel Prize in 2002.
He teaches the skill of how to avoid bias and our brain’s tendency of fallacious recognition.
There are many choices in our private and business lives like “where do we (3)set off on our next vacation? should I build a new house? If our company were to create a new product, can we (1)scrape together enough money from a bank? etc…”
A small decision in daily life can be rectified. However, there are some logical situations where it is not advised to (4)burn your bridges, especially in your job. Thus, we all have to learn the tendencies of our own brain.
Dr. Kahneman said it’s not easy to correctly use correctly statistical knowledge in our daily life, even for professionals. But never give up. If every person realized that we don’t know ourselves well enough and that humans are often overconfident based on wrong insights, our society will significantly change.
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Title: Overconfidence base on wrong insight
Every human wants to predict a better future. but I know that it (2)scrap through if I don’t have knowledge of psychology based on economics. We can learn it if we read a book.
The book, “Thinking, Fast And Slow” will help me when I need to make a decision in an uncertain situation. It was written 2011 by Daniel Kahneman who won the Economics Nobel Prize in 2002.
He teaches the skill which how to avoid Bias and a tendency of fallacy recognition of our brain.
There are many choices in our private and business life. Where do we (3)set off next vacation?
Should I build a new house? If our company create a new product, we can (1)scrape together enough money from a bank? etc…
A daily tiny decision can rectify. However, some determination is not allowed to (4)burn your bridges, especially in your job. Thus, we all have to learn the tendency of our own brain.
Dr. Karneman said it’s not easy to use correctly the statistic knowledge in our real life, even professional. But Never give up. If every people has realized “we don’t know ourselves. human often overconfidence based on wrong insight”, our society will significantly modify.
homework:
(1) scrape together/scrape up: Manage to find or collect enough of something you need, usually money.
(e.g) “We finally scraped together enough money to buy an old car.”
(2) scrape through: Succeed with difficulty.
(e.g) “How I scraped through the exam is still a mystery to me!”
(3) set off: Start a journey.
(e.g) “Early Saturday morning we set off for the ski slopes.”
(4) burn your bridges: If you burn your bridges, you do something that will be impossible to rectify in the future.
(e.g) If you refuse the offer, be careful not to burn your bridges by insulting them. They may make a better proposal later.
notice
In this article, I try to appropriate use 4 phrasal verbs(No.1~4) in this article which I write my daily life and thoughts because I’m learning English. This is one of writing training.
