THINKING, FAST and SLOW

Daniel Kahneman wrote a book
Into our brains to take a look.
I might believe his words too quick
If System 2 doesn’t get a kick.

Is “what you see is all there is”
Enough for you to solve the quiz?
Why wake your lazy, slower mate
When you do not need to debate?

We will recognize what is there
And give what is not little care.
We can still chew gum while we walk;
We guess and explain ‘til we balk.

Past our bias comes a creeping doubt;
We start to check our story out.
A bit of math, a few more facts,
Enough to let our minds relax.

Or perhaps more deeply we focus
In our flow of hocus-pocus.
Perhaps outside our little scheme
We recall the general theme.

But when into such thought we sink,
Econ or Human do we think?
Will rational sense make the choice,
Or will we hear emotion’s voice?

When later this book I recall,
I surely won’t remember all.
Perhaps I might read it again,
If I forget the mental strain.

My flaws, I guess, are good to know,
‘Though I wonder how much they show.
Likely more to your sight than mine
Around which they secretly entwine.

Thanks for the recommendation
About our mental gyration.
I may see the world as the same,
But now my mistakes have a name.