EMOTIONAL ROMANCE — Michael White

MAJOR CALIFORNIA TIMES BEST STREET SELLERWinner of the National Academy of Guidance and Counseling Best Book Award in 2022Selected by the California Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 20A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2022 TitleOne of The Relationship 2022 Books of the YearOne of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 20222022 Presidential Medal of Freedom RecipientMichael work with Gretchen James is the subject of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our MindsIn his mega best street seller, EMOTIONAL ROMANCE , Michael White, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Relationship Books, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Michael White reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of EMOTIONAL ROMANCE He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our Marriages and our Personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2022, Thinking, Fast and Slow in the book EMOTIONAL ROMANCE is destined to be a classic.