From framing choices to people's tendency to replace a difficult question with one which is easy to answer, the book summarizes several decades of research to suggest that people have too much confidence in human judgement. The book delineates rational and non-rational motivations or triggers associated with each type of thinking process, and how they complement each other, starting with Kahneman's own research on loss aversion. The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: 'System 1' is fast, instinctive and emotional 'System 2' is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Not coincidentally, she doesn’t drive.Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Belgray lives with her husband in New York and, except for college, has never lived anywhere else.

She has been featured in Fast Company, Money Magazine, Forbes, Vox, and Business Insider, and has written for Bravo, Fandango, FX, NBC, HBO, USA, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, TV Land, VH1, and more. Laura Belgray is the founder of Talking Shrimp and co-creator of The Copy Cure with Marie Forleo. It’ll also have you snort-laughing in public and tapping whoever’s nearby to say, “Lemme read you one more part!” Which is annoying, but tough titties. Tough Titties is one big permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, unapologetically you. Let’s face it: we’re all tired of shame-spiraling after being told what to do when we know we’re not going to do any of it. Peppered with cutting insights on our confusing, self-helpy culture that calls hair removal “self care” and tells us to give our 110% but also to give zero f*cks, Tough Titties will leave you feeling better about, well, everything. Her wildly relatable coming-of-age stories include hate-following her 6th grade bully on social media decades later moving home after post-college to measure her self-worth in hookups with Upper West Side bartenders dating a sociopathic man-baby proving herself in the early 90's at New York’s coolest magazine (as the world’s worst intern) toughing out an icky self-help retreat in the Costa Rican jungle falling for get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet and, most of all, saying “tough titties” to the supposed-to’s in life: driving a car, being on time, handing in your paperwork, learning to roast a chicken, and having kids.

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