Top Highlights

• The part of our brain that leaps to conclusions like this is called the adaptive unconscious, and the study of this kind of decision making is one of the most important new fields in psychology.
• We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that — sometimes — we’re better off that way.
• We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.
• How good people’s decisions are under the fastmoving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal.
• Hoving turned to Houghton. “Have you paid for this?”