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The World Is Fast, Thinking Is Slow : A guide to clarity in the age of instant reaction
Overview
- The World Is Fast, Thinking Is Slow offers a clear, practical guide to reclaiming thoughtful judgment in an age built for speed. Drawing on historical examples, social dynamics and everyday psychology, Jonathan W. Williams exposes how frictionless information, rapid narratives and identity-driven reasoning create the illusion of understanding while eroding depth.
- This book explains why speed often substitutes for judgment, how incentives and infrastructures shape collective outcomes without conspiracies, and why democracy now functions as a distributed cognitive load. More than diagnosis, it provides concrete practices - from deliberate latency and verification routines to habits that protect sustained attention - so readers can transform fragments into durable understanding.
- For readers who want to think better, decide wiser, and live with ideas long enough to test them, this is a concise, humane manual for cultivating mental depth in a world that rewards instant clarity.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798199936163
- ISBN-10: 9798199936163
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: June 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.45 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 198
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