Guessing Game

October 2024

A big part of my job is training people on structured thinking.

We often have great discussions about System 1 vs System 2 thinking as made famous by Daniel Kahneman is his book, Thinking Fast and Slow.

System 1 is automatic, and System 2 is effortful.

I’m interested in the dopamine hit related to gambling a guess to try a fix.

It reinforces, chemically, a behavior that says, “take a guess”, if it works out, that’s good, you used less energy, you need less calories.

I explore this further in my upcoming book, Atrophy Hunter.